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Computer based steganography: How it works and why therefore any restrictions on cryptography are nonsense, at best

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In the future, messages, e.g. speech, text or pictures, will be transmitted digitally since this is cheaper, more perfect and more flexible. It is possible to hide messages, which are of necessity much shorter, nearly unrecognizable for outsiders in such digitized messages. In this article we describe how computer based steganography works and give a summary on the results of our implementation.

Most of the text was originally published by Steffen Möller, Andreas Pfitzmann and Ingo Stierand in German in the Journal “DuD, Datenschutz und Datensicherung” 18/6 (1994) 318–326.

We thank the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the Gottlieb-Daimler — and Karl-Benz Foundation, Ladenburg (Germany) for their financial support.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Dresden, D-01062, Dresden, Germany

    Elke Franz, Anja Jerichow & Andreas Pfitzmann

  2. Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, PF 101 363, D-31113, Hildesheim, Germany

    Steffen Möller & Ingo Stierand

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  1. Elke Franz
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Franz, E., Jerichow, A., Möller, S., Pfitzmann, A., Stierand, I. (1996). Computer based steganography: How it works and why therefore any restrictions on cryptography are nonsense, at best. In: Anderson, R. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61996-8_28

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