Title
Proofs of the undecidability of stegananalysis techniques
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Steganalysis comprises a set of techniques that strive to find concealed information within diverse types of digital media. On the contrary, Steganography involves a group of methods that, by manipulation of a cover object, aims to hide information to make it imperceptible. Current Steganalysis techniques suffer from a certain degree of failure in the detection of a payload and, frequently, the impossibility to discover if a media hides some information. In this chapter, we prove that the detection of hidden material within a media, or a Steganalysis procedure, is an undecidable problem. Our proof comprises two sets of tests: first, we demonstrate the undecidability by the principle of Diagonalization of Cantor, and second, we applied a reduction technique based on the undecidability of malware detection. For this part, we outline the hypothesis that there exists a similitude between Steganography techniques and the generation of an innocuous computer virus. Both demonstrations proved that Steganalysis procedures are undecidable problems.
Start page
229
End page
241
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091273422
Source
EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
Resource of which it is part
EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
ISSN of the container
25228595
ISBN of the container
9783030481483
Conference
3rd EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering and Health Services, COMPSE 2019 Mexico 28 November 2019 through 29 November 2019
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