Non-interactive watermark detection for a correlation-based watermarking scheme

  • Authors:
  • André Adelsbach;Markus Rohe;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  • Affiliations:
  • Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CMS'05 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 international conference on Communications and Multimedia Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Cryptographic techniques have been deployed to securely prove the presence of a watermark in stego-data without disclosing any security critical information to the detecting party. This paper presents a detailed practical construction and implementation results of a correlation-based non-blind watermarking scheme in the non-interactive zero-knowledge setting. We extensively describe the modifications and hurdles that had to be overcome to transform a well-known watermarking scheme – whose general detection principle is applied in many other known schemes – into a two-party setting where the critical detection input, i.e. the watermark vector and the original data is cryptographically concealed from the verifying party using a commitment scheme. Our prototype implementation is very efficient and is an evidence of the practical feasibility of zero-knowledge watermark detection.