Hiding Short Secret Messages based on Linguistic Steganography and Manual Annotation

—This article shows to what extent it is possible to develop a public simple mechanism for hiding information in natural language by means of the use of templates and manual annotation. The possibility of hiding a piece of information of a hundred of bits in a stegotext with a good linguistic quality is presented. This can be an interesting procedure for the exchange of cryptographic keys, urls, gps coordinates, mobilization messages, etc. The article shows examples for Spanish language, but the same idea it is possible in other languages. Keywords; linguistic steganography; manual annotation; stegotext I. LINGUISTIC STEGANOGRAHY

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IEEECIT
• Authors: Alfonso Muñoz Muñoz, Justo Carracedo Gallardo, Irina Arguelles Alvarez
• Keywords: IEEECIT 2010, Information Technology, Linguistic Steganography, Manual Annotation, Public Simple Mechanism