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Matryoshka: Hiding Secret Communication in Plain Sight

Safaka, Iris  
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Fragouli, Christina  
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Argyraki, Katerina  
2016
6th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI)

We want to enable a pair of communicating users to exchange secret messages while hiding the fact that secret communication is taking place. We propose a linguistic steganography approach, where each human message is hidden in another human-like message. A hard open question is how to keep the steganographic message small -- existing related tools tend to blow up its size, thereby revealing the use of steganography. We encrypt by compressing each message, mapping it to a plausible sequence of words (using a language model), and letting the human user edit the outcome to produce a human-like message; we decrypt with a Viterbi-like state decoder. Our approach aims in producing text that a human can edit and fix with minimal effort. As a first step, we build a prototype of our system that helps users encrypt English messages (into English messages), and we report on first experiments on Mechanical Turk.

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conference paper not in proceedings
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Safaka, Iris  
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Fragouli, Christina  
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Argyraki, Katerina  
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2016

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6th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI)

Austin, Texas, USA

August 8, 2016

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July 20, 2016
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