Title
Best Security Index for Digital Fingerprinting
Abstract
Digital watermarking used for fingerprinting may receive a collusion attack; two or more users collude, compare their data, find a part of embedded watermarks, and make an unauthorized copy by masking their identities. In this paper, assuming that at most c users collude, we give a characterization of the fingerprinting codes that have the best security index in a sense of "(c,p/q)-secureness" proposed by Orihara et al. The characterization is expressed in terms of intersecting families of sets. Using a block design, we also show that a distributor of data can only find asymptotically a set of c users including at least one culprit, no matter how good fingerprinting code is used.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.1.169
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Keywords
DocType
Volume
best security index,collusion attack,c user,users collude,digital watermarking,embedded watermark,digital fingerprinting,block design,c users collude,fingerprinting code,good fingerprinting code,indexation,digital watermark
Journal
E89-A
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
0302-9743
3-540-29039-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.54
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kozo Banno130.54
Shingo Orihara231.22
Takaaki Mizuki322137.60
Takao Nishizeki41771267.08