A Coding Approach for Detection of Tampering in Write-Once Optical Disks

  • Authors:
  • Mario Blaum;Jehoshua Bruck;Kurt Rubin;Wilfried Lenth

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research Division, San Jose, CA;California Institute of Technology, Pasadena;IBM Research Division, San Jose, CA;IBM Research Division, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We present coding methods for protecting against tampering of write-once optical disks, which turns them into a secure digital medium for applications where critical information must be stored in a way that prevents or allows detection of an attempt at falsification. Our method involves adding a small amount of redundancy to a modulated sector of data. This extra redundancy is not used for normal operation, but can be used for determining, say, as a testimony in court, that a disk has not been tampered with