SocialStegDisc: Application of steganography in social networks to create a file system
This work addresses the need for scalable, covert data storage in social media environments, but it appears incremental as it builds upon the existing StegHash method.
The authors tackled the problem of creating a mass-storage file system with unlimited space by applying steganography in social networks, resulting in a design that improves StegHash through a trade-off between memory and computation time.
The concept named SocialStegDisc was introduced as an application of the original idea of StegHash method. This new kind of mass-storage was characterized by unlimited space. The design also attempted to improve the operation of StegHash by trade-off between memory requirements and computation time. Applying the mechanism of linked list provided the set of operations on files: creation, reading, deletion and modification. Features, limitations and opportunities were discussed.