Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The changing capacity of a steganographic channel

The central problem for steganographers: how much data can be hidden without being detected. Two computer scientists have made a major theoretical breakthrough by tackling the problem in the same way that the electrical engineer Claude Shannon calculated the capacity of an ordinary communications channel in the 1940s. In Shannon's theory, a transmission is considered successful if the decoder properly determines which message the encoder has sent. In the stego-channel, a transmission is successful if the decoder properly determines the sent message without anybody else detecting its presence.

http://arxivblog.com/?p=696

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