Attack Analysis for He & Wu's Joint Watermarking/Fingerprinting Scheme

  • Authors:
  • Hans Georg Schaathun

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, University of Surrey,

  • Venue:
  • IWDW '07 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We introduce two novel collusion attacks against digital fingerprinting using additive spread-spectrum watermarks. These attacks demonstrate that the He-Wu fingerprinting system is considerably less secure against collusive attacks than suggested by the original paper. In addition to causing error rates above 85% at the decoder with as few as 8 colluders, one of our two attacks give copies with less distortion (measured by Euclidean distance) than the fingerprinted copies originally distributed.