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On the suitability of the internet multimedia storage for steganographic information transfer in MP4 files
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The aim of this work is to analyze suitability of existing internet multimedia storage services to use as a covert (steganographic) transmission channel. After general overview we focus specifically on the YouTube service. In particular, we study the feasibility of the recently proposed new steganographic technique [6] of hiding information directly in the structure of the mp4-encoded video file. Our statistical analysis of the set of 1000 video files stored by this service show the practical limitations for this type of information hiding.
The aim of this work is to analyze suitability of existing internet multimedia storage services to use as a covert (steganographic) transmission channel. After general overview we focus specifically on the YouTube service. In particular, we study the feasibility of the recently proposed new steganographic technique [6] of hiding information directly in the structure of the mp4-encoded video file. Our statistical analysis of the set of 1000 video files stored by this service show the practical limitations for this type of information hiding.
Classification : 62A10, 93E12
Keywords: steganography; mp4 file; multimedia storage; YouTube 
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Jókay, Matúš; Baroš, Ján. On the suitability of the internet multimedia storage for steganographic information transfer in MP4 files. Kybernetika, Tome 48 (2012) no. 3, pp. 522-535. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/KYB_2012_48_3_a12/

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