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A Supraliminal Channel in a Videoconferencing Application

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Scott Craver,

Enping Li,

Jun Yu,

Idris AtakliAuthors Info & Claims

Information Hiding: 10th International Workshop, IH 2008, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, May 19-21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

October 2008

Pages 283 - 293

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88961-8_20

Published: 15 October 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Unlike subliminal or steganographic channels, a supraliminal channel encodes information in the semantic content of cover data, generating innocent communication in a manner similar to mimic functions. These low-bitrate channels are robust to active wardens, and can be used with subliminal channels to achieve steganographic public key exchange. Automated generation of innocent-looking content, however, remains a difficult problem.

Apple's iChat, a popular instant-messaging client and the default client on the Macintosh operating system, includes a video chat facility that allows the user to apply special effects such as replacing the user's background with a video file. We show how this can be used to implement a high-bitrate supraliminal channel, by embedding a computer animation engineered to communicate ciphertext by its pseudo-random behavior.

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October 2008

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