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An Improved Steganography Covert Channel

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Advances in Software Engineering (ASEA 2009)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 59))

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An improved steganographic method is proposed in this paper. Two distinct methods are combined to achieve possibly high data hiding capability with high visual quality. The proposed method shifts the last n nonzero AC coefficients from S JPEG block, and changes the magnitude values of the first n nonzero AC coefficients from T JPEG blocks. S and T blocks are determined by the number of nonzero JPEG coefficients in the block. Zero run-length modification method improves the robustness against statistical attack based on magnitude histogram. Magnitude modification method improves the visual quality. This combination complements each other.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent,Ohio, 44242, USA

    Md Amiruzzaman & Hassan Peyravi

  2. Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 89 Wangsan, Mohyun, Cheoin, Kyonggi, 449-791, South Korea

    M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 89 Wangsan, Mohyun, Cheoin, Kyonggi, 449-791, South Korea

    Yoojin Chung

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  1. Infobright Inc.,  

    Dominik Ślęzak

  2. Hannam University, 306-791, Daejeon, South Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  3. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Akingbehin Kiumi

  4. University of California, Riverside, USA

    Tao Jiang

  5. National ICT, Australia

    June Verner

  6. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Valencia University of Technology, Camino de Vera s/n, P.O. Box: 22012, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Silvia Abrahão

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Amiruzzaman, M., Peyravi, H., Abdullah-Al-Wadud, M., Chung, Y. (2009). An Improved Steganography Covert Channel. In: Ślęzak, D., Kim, Th., Kiumi, A., Jiang, T., Verner, J., Abrahão, S. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. ASEA 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10619-4_22

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