Analysis of a Buyer–Seller Watermarking Protocol for Trustworthy Purchasing of Digital Contents

Phan, Raphaël C.‐W.; Goi, Bok‐Min; Poh, Geong-Sen; Kim, Jongsung

doi:10.1007/s11277-009-9876-z

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“…On the other hand, the fingerprinting watermark insert a unique user identification into the content so that it can be used to track an illegal distributer [29]. A buyer-seller watermarking schemes [30][31][32] that incorporates both watermarking and fingerprinting mechanisms to protect the rights of both the buyer and the seller have been proposed. All of the above techniques are useful for detecting content owners or tracking illegal distributors, but do not prevent illegal distribution itself because the content copy holders can possess the same original contents in their local devices.…”

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Secure and reliable blockchain-based eBook transaction system for self-published eBook trading

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As eBook readers have expanded on the market, various online eBook markets have arisen as well. Currently, the online eBook market consists of at least publishers and online platform providers and authors, and these actors inevitably incur intermediate costs between them. In this paper, we introduce a blockchain-based eBook market system that enables self-published eBook trading and direct payments from readers to authors without any trusted party; because authors publish themselves and readers purchase directly from authors, neither actor incurs any intermediate costs. However, because of this trustless environment, the validity, ownership and intellectual property of digital contents cannot be verified and protected, and the safety of purchase transactions cannot be ensured. To address these shortcomings, we propose a secure and reliable eBook transaction system that satisfies the following security requirements: (1) verification of the ownership of each eBook, (2) confidentiality of eBook contents, (3) authorization of a right to read a book, (4) authentication of a legitimate purchaser, (5) verification of the validity and integrity of eBook contents, (6) safety of direct purchase transactions, and (7) preventing eBook piracy and illegal distribution. We provide practical cryptographic protocols for the proposed system and analyze the security and simulated performance of the proposed schemes.

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“…Thus, using a trusted third party is a price worth paying if it can turn a fingerprinting scheme into a practical alternative (Martínez-Ballesté, Sebé, Domingo-Ferrer, & Soriano, 2003). A buyer-seller watermarking scheme (Phan, Goi, Poh, & Jongsung, 2011;Rial, Deng, Bianchi, Piva, & Preneel, 2010) incorporates both watermarking and fingerprinting mechanisms to protect the rights of both the content provider (merchant) and the customer (buyer). A complete and sound buyer-seller watermarking protocol is expected to solve the following requirements (Deng & Preneel, 2008):…”

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Framework for preserving security and privacy in peer-to-peer content distribution systems

Qureshi

Megías

Rifà-Pous

2015

Expert Systems with Applications

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The use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks for multimedia distribution has spread out globally in recent years. The mass popularity is primarily driven by efficient distribution of content, also giving rise to piracy. An end user (buyer) of a P2P content distribution system does not want to reveal his/her identity during a transaction with a content owner (merchant), whereas the merchant does not want the buyer to further distribute the content illegally. Therefore, there is a strong need for a content distribution mechanism over P2P networks that do not pose security and privacy threats to the copyright holders and end users, respectively. The existent systems for copyright and privacy protection employ cryptographic mechanisms at a cost of high computational burden which makes these systems impractical to distribute large sized files, such as music albums or movies. In this paper, we propose and analyse a P2P content distribution system which allows efficient distribution of large-sized content while preserving the security and privacy of merchants and buyers, respectively. Our proposed framework is able to resolve the problems of piracy tracing, buyer frameproofness, collusion resistance, dispute resolution and buyer's anonymity. We have carried out simulations to evaluate the performance of our framework in terms of imperceptibility, robustness, throughput and content delivery costs. The experimental results confirm that the proposed framework provides an efficient solution to copyright infringement issues over P2P networks, reducing the multimedia file sizes as much as five times on average, while protecting the end users' privacy and anonymity.

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“…In their protocol, the arbitration process needs the assistance of a group manager. Recently, Phan et al presented an attack [23] on the two-party watermarking protocol [19]; that is, the buyer can remove its part of the watermark from the watermarked digital content. We will show how this attack can be avoided.…”

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“…This section shows how the proposed image-retrieval watermarking protocol can achieve the design goals outlined in Section 3 by examining the security problems. It follows the approach of security analysis adopted in the research of conventional buyer-seller watermarking protocols [9][10][11][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

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Secure Image Retrieval Based on Visual Content and Watermarking Protocol

Zhang

Xiang

Zhou

et al. 2011

The Computer Journal

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As an interesting application on cloud computing, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has attracted a lot of attention, but the focus of previous research work was mainly on improving the retrieval performance rather than addressing security issues such as copyrights and user privacy. With an increase of security attacks in the computer networks, these security issues become critical for CBIR systems. In this paper, we propose a novel two-party watermarking protocol that can resolve the issues regarding user rights and privacy. Unlike the previously published protocols, our protocol does not require the existence of a trusted party. It exhibits three useful features: security against partial watermark removal, security in watermark verification and non-repudiation. In addition, we report an empirical research of CBIR with the security mechanism. The experimental results show that the proposed protocol is practicable and the retrieval performance will not be affected by watermarking query images.

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Analysis of a Buyer–Seller Watermarking Protocol for Trustworthy Purchasing of Digital Contents

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Secure and reliable blockchain-based eBook transaction system for self-published eBook trading

Secure and reliable blockchain-based eBook transaction system for self-published eBook trading

Framework for preserving security and privacy in peer-to-peer content distribution systems

Secure Image Retrieval Based on Visual Content and Watermarking Protocol

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