Detection-Resistant Steganography for Standard MIDI Files

• INOUE Daisuke

  Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University

• SUZUKI Masataka

  Graduate School of Environment and Information Science, Yokohama National University

• MATSUMOTO Tsutomu

  Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University

Abstract

Steganography is a technique that conceals the very existence of communication by means of hiding secret messages in innocuous cover objects. We previously developed a steganographic method that uses standard MIDI files (SMFs) as cover objects. Our method could conceal the secret messages in SMFs without changing their sound. We also investigated the effectiveness of our method against steganalysis. This steganalytic research revealed that files embedded using our method are vulnerable to detection, because stego SMFs lose the imprints borne by sequencers. In this study, we describe two improved methods of steganography that enable even stego SMFs to keep the sequencer's imprint. As a result, we improved the resistance of SMFs against steganalysis but there was a slight reduction in the embedding rate.

Journal

• IEICE Trans., A

  IEICE Trans., A 86 (8), 2099-2106, 2003-08-01

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• information hiding
• steganography
• steganalysis
• standard MIDI files

Details

• CRID: 1573950402085201792
• NII Article ID: 110003221298
• NII Book ID: AA10826239
• ISSN: 09168508
• Text Lang: en
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