Forensic steganalysis: determining the stego key in spatial domain steganography

Jessica Fridrich; Miroslav Goljan; David Soukal; Taras Holotyak

doi:10.1117/12.585987

21 March 2005 Forensic steganalysis: determining the stego key in spatial domain steganography

Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, David Soukal, Taras Holotyak

Proceedings Volume 5681, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.585987
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This paper is an extension of our work on stego key search for JPEG images published at EI SPIE in 2004. We provide a more general theoretical description of the methodology, apply our approach to the spatial domain, and add a method that determines the stego key from multiple images. We show that in the spatial domain the stego key search can be made significantly more efficient by working with the noise component of the image obtained using a denoising filter. The technique is tested on the LSB embedding paradigm and on a special case of embedding by noise adding (the ±1 embedding). The stego key search can be performed for a wide class of steganographic techniques even for sizes of secret message well below those detectable using known methods. The proposed strategy may prove useful to forensic analysts and law enforcement.

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Jessica Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, David Soukal, and Taras Holotyak "Forensic steganalysis: determining the stego key in spatial domain steganography", Proc. SPIE 5681, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII, (21 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.585987

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