Hiding the hidden message: approaches to textual steganography
by George R.S. Weir, Michael Morran
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF), Vol. 3, No. 3, 2010

Abstract: Textual steganography is a means of concealing an encoded message within text. The appeal in such a system is its potential for hiding the fact that encoding is taking place. The failure to hide the presence of encoding is a form of information leakage and an inherent risk since it suggests that there is important or valuable information in transit. This is considered a major limitation of existing cryptographic techniques as applied to secure information transfer. In this paper, we describe an experimental system that we have developed as a test bed for textual steganography. This system allows us to explore the application of part of speech tagging, word sense disambiguation and synonym replacement as component strategies for textual steganography.

Online publication date: Thu, 27-Jan-2011

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