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With the explosive growth of internet and the fast communication techniques in recent years the security and the confidentiality of the sensitive data has become of prime and supreme importance and concern. To protect this data from…

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We consider a scenario in which $K$ transmitters attempt to communicate covert messages reliably to a legitimate receiver over a discrete memoryless MAC while simultaneously escaping detection from an adversary who observes their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

The DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Various countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting, and protocol restrictions have been implemented. Still, the threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maynard Koch , Florian Dolzmann , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

With the widespread applications of the deep neural network (DNN), how to covertly transmit the DNN models in public channels brings us the attention, especially for those trained for secret-learning tasks. In this paper, we propose deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Guobiao Li , Sheng Li , Meiling Li , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel, where the transmitter has causal or noncausal knowledge of the channel states. Here, "covert" means that a warden on the channel should observe similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ligong Wang , Ashish Khisti , Gregory W. Wornell

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

Covert channels are stealthy communication channels that enable manifold adversary and legitimate scenarios, ranging from malware communications to the exchange of confidential information by journalists and censorship circumvention. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Steffen Wendzel , Tobias Schmidbauer , Sebastian Zillien , Jörg Keller

The need to protect sensitive information privacy duringinformation exchange over the internet/intranet has led towider adoption of cryptography and steganography. The cryptography approaches convert the information into an unreadable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Idakwo M. A. , Muazu M. B. , Adedokun A. E. , Sadiq B. O

This paper presents new methods enabling anonymous communication on the Internet. We describe a new protocol that allows us to create an anonymous overlay network by exploiting the web browsing activities of regular users. We show that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Matthias Bauer

The widespread adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained scenarios has driven the development of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) system. However, this approach is susceptible to privacy leakage, as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jinyu Lu , Xinrong Sun , Yunting Tao , Tong Ji , Fanyu Kong , Guoqiang Yang

The purpose of the covert communication system is to implement the communication process without causing third party perception. In order to achieve complete covert communication, two aspects of security issues need to be considered. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Zhongliang Yang , Yuting Hu , Yongfeng Huang , Yujin Zhang

Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that communication is taking place, by hiding information in other information. Many different carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular because of their frequency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-08-12 H. B. Bahar , Ali Aboutalebi

A quantum steganography protocol with large payload is proposed, based on dense coding and entanglement swapping of GHZ states. Its super quantum channel is formed by building up the hidden channel within the original quantum secure direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Tian-Yu Ye , Li-Zhen Jiang

Wireless covert channels promise to exfiltrate information with high bandwidth by circumventing traditional access control mechanisms. Ideally, they are only accessible by the intended recipient and---for regular system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Jiska Classen , Matthias Schulz , Matthias Hollick

Recent cryptographic results establish that neural networks can be backdoored such that no efficient algorithm can distinguish them from a clean model. These guarantees, however, have been confined to stylised architectures of limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Marte Eggen , Eirik Reiestad , Kristian Gjøsteen , Inga Strümke

Compression algorithms reduce the redundancy in data representation to decrease the storage required for that data. Data compression offers an attractive approach to reducing communication costs by using available bandwidth effectively.…

Performance · Computer Science 2007-05-23 B. S. Shajeemohan , Dr. V. K. Govindan

Establishing hidden communication is an important subject of discussion that has gained increasing importance nowadays with the development of the internet. One of the key methods for establishing hidden communication is steganography.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-03-07 G. Sahoo , Rajesh Kumar Tiwari

A novel signaling design for secure transmission over two-user multiple-input multiple-output non-orthogonal multiple access channel using deep neural networks (DNNs) is proposed. The goal of the DNN is to form the covariance matrix of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jordan Pauls , Mojtaba Vaezi

Online social networks are used frequently by many people: Staying in contact with friends and sharing experiences with them is very important. However, users are increasingly concerned that their data will end up in the hands of strangers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Fabian Schillinger , Christian Schindelhauer

This paper investigates information-theoretic oblivious transfer via a discrete memoryless broadcast channel with one sender and two receivers. We analyze both non-colluding and colluding honest-but-curious user models and establish general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hadi Aghaee , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche