Coverings, centered codes, and combinatorial steganography

Problems of Information Transmission - Tập 45 - Trang 289-294 - 2009
F. Galand1, G. A. Kabatiansky2
1IRISA, Rennes, France
2Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS, Moscow, Russia

Tóm tắt

It is shown that steganography with a given distortion criteria, which we call combinatorial steganography, is equivalent to coverings of Hamming spaces or to so-called centered error-correcting codes, depending on whether an opponent is passive or active, respectively. A construction of centered error-correcting codes based on Reed-Solomon and algebraic geometry codes is proposed.

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