Cryptanalysis of a generalized anonymous buyer-seller watermarking protocol of IWDW 2004

Bok Min Goi, Raphael C.W. Phan, M. U. Siddiqi

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the security of a generalized anonymous buyer-seller watermarking protocol recently proposed by Choi and Park at IWDW 2004. We prove that it has not met the designers' intended security criteria by showing that an attacker can actually: (1) discover the unique buyer's watermark which was chosen by the watermark certificate center (WCC), and (2) decrypt the encrypted watermarked digital content without any extra cost. Also, it is surprising to note that when designing their protocol, the designers did not take into consideration the conspiracy attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmbedded and Ubiquitous Computing - EUC 2005 Workshops
Subtitle of host publicationUISW, NCUS, SecUbiq, USN, and TAUES, Proceedings
Pages936-944
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventIFIP International Symposium on Network-Centric Ubiquitous Systems 2005 - Nagasaki, Japan
Duration: 6 Dec 20059 Dec 2005
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/11596042?page=5#toc (Proceedings)

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3823 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceIFIP International Symposium on Network-Centric Ubiquitous Systems 2005
Abbreviated titleNCUS 2005
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagasaki
Period6/12/059/12/05
Internet address

Keywords

  • Buyer-Seller Watermarking Protocol
  • Copyright Protection
  • Cryptanalysis
  • Digital Watermarking

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