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Provably Secure Steganography

Authors:
Nicholas J. Hopper
John Langford
Luis von Ahn
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/137
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Abstract: Informally, steganography is the process of sending a secret message from Alice to Bob in such a way that an eavesdropper (who listens to all communications) cannot even tell that a secret message is being sent. In this work, we initiate the study of steganography from a complexity-theoretic point of view. We introduce definitions based on computational indistinguishability and we prove that the existence of one-way functions implies the existence of secure steganographic protocols. NOTE: An extended abstract of this paper appeared in CRYPTO 2002. Here we present a full version, including a correction to a small error in Construction 1.
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@misc{eprint-2002-11660,
  title={Provably Secure Steganography},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={foundations / steganography},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/137},
  note={Appeared in CRYPTO 2002. biglou@cs.cmu.edu 11941 received 11 Sep 2002},
  author={Nicholas J. Hopper and John Langford and Luis von Ahn},
  year=2002
}