Rad HAZU, Matematičke znanosti, Vol. 25 (2021), 161-179.

MUSIPHER: HIDING INFORMATION IN MUSIC COMPOSITION

Peter Špaček and Pavol Sobota

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
e-mail: peter.spacek@stuba.sk
e-mail: xsobotap@stuba.sk

Abstract.   In this paper, we present a new way of hiding information. We store the information directly in the process of composing music, based on musical theory. We created an algorithm to produce music based on binary string, where each bit is transformed into a music composition decision. We follow simple rules to make music, which sounds good. We conducted survey to find whether our solution works, and found promising results of our approach.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification.   94A99.

Key words and phrases.   Musical cipher, cryptogram, music composition, steganography, cryptography.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdcl04y

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