How Hidden Can be Even More Hidden?

@article{Fraczek2011HowHC,
  title={How Hidden Can be Even More Hidden?},
  author={Wojciech Fraczek and Wojciech Mazurczyk and Krzysztof Szczypiorski},
  journal={2011 Third International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security},
  year={2011},
  pages={581-585}
}
The paper presents Deep Hiding Techniques (DHTs) that define general techniques that can be applied to every network steganography method to improve its undetectability and make steganogram extraction harder to perform. We define five groups of techniques that can make steganogram less susceptible to detection and extraction. For each of the presented group, examples of the usage are provided based on existing network steganography methods. To authors' best knowledge presented approach is the… 
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