StegFS: A Steganographic File System

• Main Authors: PANG, Hwee Hwa, TAN, Kian-Lee, ZHOU, Xuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Encrypting file system; Steganographic file system; User access control; Cryptography; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1143; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2142/viewcontent/StegFS__edited_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

While user access control and encryption can protect valuable data from passive observers, those techniques leave visible ciphertexts that are likely to alert an active adversary to the existence of the data, who can then compel an authorized user to disclose it. This paper introduces StegFS, a steg...