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Stego - images and sounds
At 12:19 PM 3/8/96 -0800, Jim McCoy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>Provided the bits are random in the way that they should be... The low-order
>bits in such files were chosen by implementors of stego programs because
>modification would not be noticed by the person viewing or listening to
>the file, not necessarily because there was actually randomness at this
>level which could be replaced. Does anyone know of a survey of images or
>sound files which tested the statistical randomness of these bits? They
>may not be as random as people think they are.
>
This should depend on how the image/sound was obtained, though I am pretty
sure in most cases there would be easily detectable patterns. They would
be the strongest in software-generated files, smaller in good reproductions
of precise recordings, and very small in noisy recordings. In all cases,
the number of lower bits used for stego-messages may be chosen lower than
the existing noise of the signal. Changing all lower bits in a good
rendered image may still be unnoticeable for the human viewer, but really
easy to detect to a program.
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