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A statistical algorithm for linguistic steganography detection based on distribution of words

  • Chen Zhi-Li*
  • , Huang Liu-Sheng
  • , Yu Zhen-Shan
  • , Li Ling-Jun
  • , Yang Wei
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel statistical algorithm for linguistic steganography detection, which takes advantage of distribution of words in the text segment detected, is presented. Linguistic steganography is the art of using written natural language to hide the very presence of secret messages. Using the text data, which is the foundational media in internet communications, as its carrier, linguistic steganography plays an important part in Information Hiding (IH) area. The previous work was mainly focused on linguistic steganography and there were few researches on linguistic steganalisys. We attempt to do something to help to fix this gap. In our experiment of detecting the three different linguistic steganography methods: NICETEXT, TEXTO and Markov-Chain-Based, the total accuracies on discovering stego-text segments and normal text segments are found to be 87.39%, 95.51%, 98.50%, 99.15% and 99.57% respectively when the segment size is 5kB, 10kB, 20kB, 30kB and 40kB. Our research shows that the linguistic steganalysis based on distribution of words is promising.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationARES 2008 - 3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages558-563
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)0769531024, 9780769531021
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, ARES 2008 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 4 Mar 20087 Mar 2008

Publication series

NameARES 2008 - 3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, Proceedings

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Availability, Security, and Reliability, ARES 2008
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period4/03/087/03/08

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