YouSkyde: Information Hiding for Skype Video Traffic
Cryptography and Security
2016-08-29 v1 Multimedia
Abstract
In this paper a new information hiding method for Skype videoconference calls - YouSkyde - is introduced. A Skype traffic analysis revealed that introducing intentional losses into the Skype video traffic stream to provide the means for clandestine communication is the most favourable solution. A YouSkyde proof-of-concept implementation was carried out and its experimental evaluation is presented. The results obtained prove that the proposed method is feasible and offer a steganographic bandwidth as high as 0.93 kbps, while introducing negligible distortions into transmission quality and providing high undetectability.
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@article{arxiv.1608.07337,
title = {YouSkyde: Information Hiding for Skype Video Traffic},
author = {Wojciech Mazurczyk and Maciej Karas and Krzysztof Szczypiorski and Artur Janicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07337},
year = {2016}
}
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16 pages, 10 figures