Kybernetika 48 no. 3, 522-535, 2012

On the suitability of the internet multimedia storage for steganographic information transfer in MP4 files

Matúš Jókay and Ján Baroš

Abstract:

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 \cite{wseas} 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.

Keywords:

steganography, mp4 file, multimedia storage, YouTube

Classification:

93E12, 62A10

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