Paper 2005/305 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2005/305 ↗

Steganography with Imperfect Samplers

Anna Lysyanskaya
Maria Meyerovich
Abstract

The goal of steganography is to pass secret messages by disguising them as innocent-looking covertexts. Real world stegosystems are often broken because they make invalid assumptions about the system's ability to sample covertexts. We examine whether it is possible to weaken this assumption. By modeling the covertext distribution as a stateful Markov process, we create a sliding scale between real world and provably secure stegosystems. We also show that insufficient knowledge of past states can have catastrophic results.

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Preprint.
History
2005-12-07: last updated
2005-09-07: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/305
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/305,
      author = {Anna Lysyanskaya and Maria Meyerovich},
      title = {Steganography with Imperfect Samplers},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/305},
      year = {2005},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/305}
}
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