Title :

Impacts of Watermarking Security on Tardos-based Fingerprinting

Author(s) :

Mathon, Benjamin [Auteur correspondant]
GIPSA - Communication Information and Complex Systems [GIPSA-CICS]
Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection [Louvain] [TELE]
Bas, Patrick [Auteur]
LAGIS-SI
Cayre, François [Auteur]
GIPSA - Communication Information and Complex Systems [GIPSA-CICS]
Macq, Benoît [Auteur]

Journal title :

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Pages :

1038 - 1050

Publisher :

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publication date :

2013-04-25

ISSN :

1556-6013

English keyword(s) :

Watermarking
Spread-spectrum
Security
Active Fingerprinting

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]/Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]
Informatique [cs]/Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

English abstract : [en]

This article presents a study of the embedding of Tardos binary fingerprinting codes with watermarking techniques. By taking into account the security of the embedding scheme, we present a new approach for colluding ...
Show more >This article presents a study of the embedding of Tardos binary fingerprinting codes with watermarking techniques. By taking into account the security of the embedding scheme, we present a new approach for colluding strategies which relies on the possible estimation error rate of the code symbols (denoted epsilon). We derive a new attack strategy called "epsilon-Worst Case Attack" and show its efficiency using the computation of achievable rates for simple decoding. Then we consider the interplay between security and robustness regarding the accusation performances of the fingerprinting scheme and show that (1) for a same accusation rate secure schemes can afford to be less robust than insecure ones, and (2) that secure schemes enable to cast the Worst Case Attack into an interleaving attack. Additionally, we use the security analysis of the watermarking scheme to derive from epsilon a security attack for a fingerprinting scheme based on Tardos codes and a new scheme called stochastic spread-spectrum watermarking. We compare a removal attack against an AWGN robustness attack and we show that for the same distortion, the combination of a fingerprinting attack and a security attack easily outperform classical attacks even with a small number of observations.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL