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Steganography Based on Pattern Languages

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Abstract

In order to transmit secret messages such that the information exchange itself cannot be detected, steganography needs a channel, a set of strings with some distribution that occur in an ordinary communication. The elements of such a language or concept are called coverdocuments. The question how to design secure stegosystems for natural classes of languages is investigated for pattern languages. We present a randomized modification scheme for strings of a pattern language that can reliably encode arbitrary messages and is almost undetectable.

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  • Language-based cryptography
  • Steganography
  • Pattern

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23552, Lübeck, Germany

    Sebastian Berndt & Rüdiger Reischuk

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    Adrian-Horia Dediu

  2. Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jan Janoušek

  3. Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

    Carlos Martín-Vide

  4. Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen, Germany

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Berndt, S., Reischuk, R. (2016). Steganography Based on Pattern Languages. In: Dediu, AH., Janoušek, J., Martín-Vide, C., Truthe, B. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9618. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30000-9_30

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