Steganography in games: A general methodology and its application to the game of Go

Computers and Security

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-71

  Hernandez Castro, Julio C ^a   Blasco Lopez, Ignacio ^b,c   Estevez Tapiador, Juan M ^a   Ribagorda Garnacho, Arturo ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Área de Telecomunicaciones Tecsidel   (Spain)

^c Telecommunications Department of Tecsidel   (Spain)

^d Telecommunications Department of Tecsidel ^*  (Spain)

^e Carlos III University ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Covert channels; Go; Information hiding; Steganalysis; Steganography in games

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DNA; FILE ORGANIZATION; GAME THEORY; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

COVERT CHANNELS; DIGITAL CONTENT; STEGANOGRAPHY IN GAMES;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 32444448571     PISSN: 01674048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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