Collusion-Secure Fingerprinting for Digital Data (Extended Abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Dan Boneh;James Shaw

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '95 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper discusses methods for assigning codewords for the purpose of fingerprinting digital data (e.g., software, documents, and images). Fingerprinting consists of uniquely marking and registering each copy of the data. This marking allows a distributor to detect any unauthorized copy and trace it back to the user. This threat of detection will deter users from releasing unauthorized copies.A problem arises when users collude: For digital data, two different fingerprinted objects can be compared and the differences between them detected. Hence, a set of users can collude to detect the location of the fingerprint. They can then alter the fingerprint to mask their identities. We present a general fingerprinting solution which is secure in the context of collusion. In addition, we discuss methods for distributing fingerprinted data.