Kleptography

Kleptography is the study of stealing information securely and subliminally. The term was introduced by Adam Young and Moti Yung in the Proceedings of Advances in Cryptology – Crypto '96.[1] 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.[2][3][4] 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.

  1. ^ Young, A.; Yung, M. (1996). "The Dark Side of Black-Box Cryptography, or: Should we trust Capstone?". In Koblitz, Neal (ed.). Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO '96: 16th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 18–22, 1996, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 89–103. ISBN 978-3-540-68697-2.
  2. ^ Simmons, G. J. (1984). "The Prisoners' Problem and the Subliminal Channel". In Chaum, D. (ed.). Proceedings of Crypto '83. Plenum Press. pp. 51–67. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-4730-9_5. ISBN 978-1-4684-4732-3.
  3. ^ Simmons, G. J. (1985). "The Subliminal Channel and Digital Signatures". In Beth, T.; Cot, N.; Ingemarsson, I. (eds.). Proceedings of Eurocrypt '84. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 209. Springer-Verlag. pp. 364–378. doi:10.1007/3-540-39757-4_25. ISBN 978-3-540-16076-2.
  4. ^ Simmons, G. J. (1993). "Subliminal Communication is Easy Using the DSA". In Helleseth, T. (ed.). Proceedings of Eurocrypt '93. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 765. Springer-Verlag. pp. 218–232. doi:10.1007/3-540-48285-7_18. ISBN 978-3-540-57600-6.