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Steganographic Schemes for File System and B-Tree
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Hwee Hwa PANG, Singapore Management University
  • Kian-Lee TAN, National University of Singapore
  • Xuan ZHOU, National University of Singapore
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
6-2004
Abstract

While user access control and encryption can protect valuable data from passive observers, these techniques leave visible ciphertexts that are likely to alert an active adversary to the existence of the data. We introduce StegFD, a steganographic file driver that securely hides user-selected files in a file system so that, without the corresponding access keys, an attacker would not be able to deduce their existence. Unlike other steganographic schemes proposed previously, our construction satisfies the prerequisites of a practical file system in ensuring the integrity of the files and maintaining efficient space utilization. We also propose two schemes for implementing steganographic B-trees within a StegFD volume. We have completed an implementation on Linux, and results of the experiment confirm that StegFD achieves an order of magnitude improvements in performance and/or space utilization over the existing schemes.

Keywords
  • Steganography,
  • plausible deniability,
  • security,
  • access control,
  • StegFD,
  • StegBtree
Identifier
10.1109/TKDE.2004.15
Publisher
IEEE
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2004.15
Citation Information
Hwee Hwa PANG, Kian-Lee TAN and Xuan ZHOU. "Steganographic Schemes for File System and B-Tree" IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Vol. 16 Iss. 6 (2004) p. 701 - 713 ISSN: 1041-4347
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hweehwa-pang/77/