On the suitability of the internet multimedia storage for steganographic information transfer in MP4 files

Matúš Jókay; Ján Baroš

Kybernetika (2012)

  • Volume: 48, Issue: 3, page 522-535
  • ISSN: 0023-5954

Abstract

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The aim of this work is to analyze suitability of existing internet multimedia storage services to use as a covert (steganographic) transmission channel. After general overview we focus specifically on the YouTube service. In particular, we study the feasibility of the recently proposed new steganographic technique [6] of hiding information directly in the structure of the mp4-encoded video file. Our statistical analysis of the set of 1000 video files stored by this service show the practical limitations for this type of information hiding.

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Jókay, Matúš, and Baroš, Ján. "On the suitability of the internet multimedia storage for steganographic information transfer in MP4 files." Kybernetika 48.3 (2012): 522-535. <http://eudml.org/doc/246567>.

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author = {Jókay, Matúš, Baroš, Ján},
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title = {On the suitability of the internet multimedia storage for steganographic information transfer in MP4 files},
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