In this thesis, we present a novel, elegant and simple method for secure transaction authentication and non-repudiation for trading multimedia content. Multimedia content can be video, images, text documents, music, or any form of digital signal, however here we will focus particular on still images with application to video. We will provide proof that not only can receiving parties within a transaction be untrustworthy, but the owner, or members within an owning party, also cannot be trusted. Known as the insider attack, this attack is particularly prevalent in multimedia transactions. Thus the focus of the thesis is on the prevention of piracy, with particular emphasis on the case where the owner of a document is assumed to be capable of deceit, placing the system under the assumption of mutual distrust. We will introduce a concept called staining, which will be used to achieve authentication and non-repudiation. Staining is composed of two key components: (1) public-key cryptography; and (2) steganographic watermarking. The idea is to watermark a multimedia document after encryption, thereby introducing a stain on the watermark. This stain is due to the non-commutative nature of the scheme, so that decryption will be imperfect, leaving a residue of the cryptographic process upon the watermark. Essentially, secrets from the owner (the watermark) and the receiver (the cryptographic key) are entangled rather than shared, as in most schemes. We then demonstrate our method using image content and will test several different common cryptographic systems with a spread-spectrum type watermark. Watermarking and cryptography are not usually combined in such a manner, due to several issues such as the rigid nature of cryptography. Contrary to the expectation that there will be severe distortions caused to the original document, we show that such an entanglement is possible without destroying the document under protection. We will then attack the most promising combination of systems by introducing geometric distortions such as rotation and cropping, as well as compressing the marked document, to demonstrate that such a method is robust to typical attacks. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1297339 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2007
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/264587 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Wong, Angela S. L. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Detected Language | English |
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