Effective linguistic steganography detection

  • Chen Zhi-li*
  • , Huang Liu-sheng
  • , Yu Zhen-shan
  • , Zhao Xin-xin
  • , Zheng Xue-ling
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Linguistic steganography is an art of concealing secret messages. More specifically, it takes advantage of the properties of natural language, such as the linguistic structure to hide messages. In this paper, an effective method for linguistic steganography detection is presented. In virtue of the concepts in area of information theory, the method uses an information-entropy-like statistical variable of words in detected text segment together with its variance as two classification features. The Support Vector Machine is used as classifier. The method was centered on detection for small size text segments estimated in the hundreds in words. Its achievement is simple and its execution is fast and relatively accurate. In our experiment of detecting the three different linguistic steganography methods: NICETEXT, TEXTO and Markov-Chain-Based, the accuracy exceeds 90%. As a result, our method can be used as a common pre-detection method followed by a more specific and accurate detection method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Workshops, CIT Workshops 2008
Pages224-229
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Workshops, CIT Workshops 2008 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 8 Jul 200811 Jul 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Workshops, CIT Workshops 2008

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Workshops, CIT Workshops 2008
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period8/07/0811/07/08

Keywords

  • Detection
  • Entropy
  • Information
  • Linguistic steganography

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