News
Upcoming Talks
March 16, 2023
There are two upcoming talks in France (CentraleSupélec, Rennes) and Germany (Cyberagentur, online) on our hiding patterns taxonomy, see list of talks.
Website Updated
January 7, 2023
We published a generic paper with lessons learned from developing a new taxonomy: Avoiding Research Tribal Wars Using Taxonomies, IEEE Computer, 2023.
Website Updated
October 4, 2022
We incorporated the 2021-taxonomy version as well as the 2015-taxonomy version into this website so that it can serve as the sole source on steganography hiding patterns now (all other websites are obsolete now).
Keynote Talk at CUING’22 Workshop, Vienna
August 24, 2022

Professor Wendzel presented the consortium’s latest draft of the steganography taxonomy during a keynote speech at the CUING workshop (part of the ARES conference) in Vienna.
New Taxonomy Revision Made Available
July 15, 2022
A heavily revised version of the steganography hiding patterns taxonomy is now available as a pre-print. This work will also be presented at the CUING workshop at the ARES conference in August.
Taxonomy for Indirect Network-based Steganography
Tobias Schmidbauer presented a survey paper on indirect network covert channels which already uses the ARES’21-taxonomy (see news entry below) and adds new and specific patterns for indirect covert communications. The paper can be found here. Note: These patterns for indirect covert communications can be applied to the most recent version of the steganography hiding patterns, too.
ARES’21 Presesentation
August 18, 2021
The video, slides (see Chapter 5b here) and the paper of our CUING’21 presentation at ARES are now published.

Website Lanched!
June 13, 2021
Our new project website was initially launched and our new paper was made available!