A Survey On Semantic Steganography Systems

TL;DR

This survey reviews semantic steganography systems, exploring their concepts, classification, and properties, highlighting recent advancements and comparing different approaches in covert communication through language semantics.

Contribution

The paper provides a comprehensive classification hierarchy and a detailed review of existing semantic steganography systems, which was lacking in prior literature.

Findings

Semantic steganography leverages language redundancies for covert messaging

A hierarchical classification system for semantic steganography is proposed

Existing systems are compared based on their properties and effectiveness

Abstract

Steganography is the practice of concealing a message within some other carrier or cover message. It is used to allow the sending of hidden information through communication channels where third parties would only be aware of the explicit information in the carrier message. With the growth of internet surveillance and the increased need for secret communication, steganography systems continue to find new applications. In semantic steganography, the redundancies in the semantics of a language are used to send a text steganographic message. In this article we go over the concepts behind semantic steganography and propose a hierarchy for classifying systems within the context of text steganography and steganography in general. After laying this groundwork we list systems for semantic steganography that have been published in the past and review their properties. Finally, we comment on and briefly compare the described systems.