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Robust Covert Communication over a Public Audio Channel Using Spread Spectrum

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Robust Covert Communication over a Public Audio Channel Using Spread Spectrum
We present a set of watermarking techniques for effective covert communication over an audio signal carrier. Watermark robustness is enabled using: (i) redundant spread-spectrum for prevention against desynchronization attacks and (ii) psycho-acoustic frequency masking (PAFM). We show that PAFM impacts the balance of “ones” and “zeros” in the part of the spreadspectrum sequence used for watermark detection and propose a modified covariance test to compensate for that anomaly. The covert message is combined with the spread-spectrum sequence and additionally permuted in time to improve correlation convergence as well as the security of individual message bits. We have incorporated these techniques into a system capable of reliably detecting watermarks in audio that has been modified using a composition of attacks that degrade the original audio characteristics well beyond the limit of acceptable quality. Such attacks include: fluctuating scaling in time and frequency, editing, re...
Darko Kirovski, Henrique S. Malvar
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where IH
Authors Darko Kirovski, Henrique S. Malvar
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