Notestega: Notes-based steganography methodology

Information Security Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 178-193

  Desoky, Abdelrahman ^a  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Information hiding; Linguistic steganography; Steganography; Test steganography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956001264     PISSN: 19393555     EISSN: 19393547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19393550903076841     Document Type: Article

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