A light weight buyer-seller watermarking protocol

  • Authors:
  • Yongdong Wu;Hweehua Pang

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Security Laborator, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;School of Information Systems, Singapore management University, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The buyer-seller watermarking protocol enables a seller to successfully identify a traitor from a pirated copy, while preventing the seller from framing an innocent buyer. Based on finite field theory and the homomorphic property of public key cryptosystems such as RSA, several buyer-seller watermarking protocols (N. Memon and P. W. Wong (2001) and C.-L. Lei et al. (2004)) have been proposed previously. However, those protocols require not only large computational power but also substantial network bandwidth. In this paper, we introduce a new buyer-seller protocol that overcomes those weaknesses by managing the watermarks. Compared with the earlier protocols, ours is n times faster in terms of computation, where n is the number of watermark elements, while incurring only O(1/lN) times communication overhead given the finite field parameter lN. In addition, the quality of the watermarked image generated with our method is better, using the same watermark strength.