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The square root law of steganographic capacity

  • University of Oxford
  • State University of New York Binghamton University

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Abstract

There are a number of recent information theoretic results demonstrating (under certain conditions) a sublinear relationship between the number of cover objects and their total steganographic capacity. in this paper we explain how these results may be adapted to the steganographic capacity of a single cover object, which under the right conditions should be proportional to the square root of the cover size. Then we perform some experiments using three genuine steganography methods in digital images, covering both spatial and DOT domains. Measuring detectability under four different steganalysis methods, for a, variety of payload and cover sizes, we observe close accordance with a square root law.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM and Sec'08
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security
Pages107-116
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventMM and Sec'08: 10th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 22 2008Sep 23 2008

Publication series

NameMM and Sec'08: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security

Conference

ConferenceMM and Sec'08: 10th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period09/22/0809/23/08

Keywords

  • Benchmarking
  • Steganalysis
  • Steganographic capacity
  • Steganography

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