Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems

In the last few years, a large number of schemes have been proposed for hiding copyright marks and other information in digital pictures, video, audio and other multimedia objects. We describe some contenders that have appeared in the research literature and in the field; we then present a number of attacks that enable the information hidden by them to be removed or otherwise rendered unusable. 1 Information Hiding Applications The last few years have seen rapidly growing interest in ways to hide information in other information. A number of factors contributed to this. Fears that copyright would be eroded by the ease with which digital media could be copied led people to study ways of embedding hidden copyright marks and serial numbers in audio and video; concern that privacy would be eroded led to work on electronic cash, anonymous remailers, digital elections and techniques for making mobile computer users harder for third parties to trace; and there remain the traditional `military...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: IH
• Authors: Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Ross J. Anderson, Markus G. Kuhn
• Keywords: Copyright Marks, IH 1998, Information Hiding, Information Hiding Applications, Information Management