Cryptanalysis of Discrete-Sequence Spread Spectrum Watermarks

  • Authors:
  • Mehmet Kivanç Mihçak;Ramarathnam Venkatesan;Mustafa Kesal

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IH '02 Revised Papers from the 5th International Workshop on Information Hiding
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Assume that we are given a watermark (wm) embedding algorithm that performs well against generic benchmark-type attacks that comprise of simple operations that are independent of the algorithm andg enerally of the input as well. A natural question then is to ask for a nearly perfect cryptanalytic attack for the specific watermarking method. In this paper we present and analyze an attack on a state-of-the-art Discrete-Sequence SpreadS pectrum (dsss) audio watermarking algorithm. Our method uses detailed models for watermarked signal and almost always jams or recovers 90% of the watermarking-key. It exploits the host and wm correlations, and the fact that one can locally correct errors in the wm estimates if the watermarking coefficients are discrete. It is natural to use error-correction codes in a watermarking algorithm, and we study the effects of the accompanying redundancy as well.