Research ideas

Research questions:

How would be possible to set up a pirate library through steganography?
- Which technologies would be used?
- Where would be the books hidden? JPG, PDF, MP3, WAV, EXIF?
- Which books would be included?
- How do you link them?
- Which interface to use?
- Which cataloging system to use?
- How could layering (text, images, metadata) become the navigation element?

How could be pirated & steganographed books brought back to the "official" library?
- How could the reader find those books in the library?

How would it be possible to translate the texts into audio and while playing the audio the images would appear in frequency levels?

For my research I want to look into using several steganography tools through python to explore abusing file formats, such as hiding books in other books, texts in images, images in audio, etc. These experiments would create the foundation for programming the steganographed pirate library.

Research thought:

interest in hiding files in other files (imagine a PDF with an audio file?) A sound file has a whole library inside it. JPEG has free space inside it. (metadata ... EXIF data .... ) Steganography

hiding books in other books

censorship

books on the blacklist

read&seek

pirate library is pirating it’s own files

hiding pirated books in “official” library

Research references

→ Funky File Formats
Binary tricks to evade identification, detection, to exploit encryption and hash collisions.

→ Steganography

Digital steganography, a set of algorithmic techniques for hiding data in files, is often used to hide text messages (or other digital content) within the bits of an image. In contrast to cryptography, steganography allows to hide the very fact that you are trying to hide something, an aspect that makes it really desirable for hidden communications or classified information leakage.

→ Javier Lloret - On opacity (2016)

→ Script

→ Introduction to Steganography

→ Using PIL → Hack This: Extract Image Metadata Using Python

→ ExifRead 2.1.2 Exif

→ LSB-Steganography

→Steganography and Python

→ Wavelet compression

Wavelet compression

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