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Upper and Lower Bounds on Black-Box Steganography

Authors:
Nenad Dedic
Gene Itkis
Leonid Reyzin
Scott Russell
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/246
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Abstract: We study the limitations of steganography when the sender is not using any properties of the underlying channel beyond its entropy and the ability to sample from it. On the negative side, we show that the number of samples the sender must obtain from the channel is exponential in the rate of the stegosystem. On the positive side, we present the first secret-key stegosystem that essentially matches this lower bound regardless of the entropy of the underlying channel. Furthermore, for high-entropy channels, we present the first secret-key stegosystem that matches this lower bound statelessly (i.e., without requiring synchronized state between sender and receiver).
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2004-12215,
  title={Upper and Lower Bounds on Black-Box Steganography},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={foundations / steganography, information hiding},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/246},
  note={ reyzin@cs.bu.edu 13375 received 22 Sep 2004, last revised 15 Aug 2006},
  author={Nenad Dedic and Gene Itkis and Leonid Reyzin and Scott Russell},
  year=2004
}