kleptography
Sign in to saveKleptography is the study of stealing information securely and subliminally. The ideas were introduced by Adam Young and Moti Yung in the Proceedings of Advances in Cryptology – Crypto '96 and the term was coined in their EUROCRYPT '97 paper. Kleptography is a subfield of cryptovirology and is a natural extension of the theory of subliminal channels that was pioneered by Gus Simmons while at Sandia National Laboratory. A kleptographic backdoor is synonymously referred to as an asymmetric backdoor. Kleptography encompasses secure and covert communications through cryptosystems and cryptographic
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Kleptography is the study of stealing information securely and subliminally. The ideas were introduced by Adam Young and Moti Yung in the Proceedings of Advances in Cryptology – Crypto '96 and the term was coined in their EUROCRYPT '97 paper. Kleptography is a subfield of cryptovirology and is a natural extension of the theory of subliminal channels that was pioneered by Gus Simmons while at Sandia National Laboratory. A kleptographic backdoor is synonymously referred to as an asymmetric backdoor. Kleptography encompasses secure and covert communications through cryptosystems and cryptographic protocols. This is reminiscent of, but not the same as steganography that studies covert communications through graphics, video, digital audio data, and so forth.
== Kleptographic attack ==
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