Digital text watermarking: secure content delivery and data hiding in digital documents

Qadir, Mohammad Abdul; Ahmad, İshtiaq

doi:10.1109/ccst.2005.1594854

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“…to insert data into text files. Qadir and Ahmad suggested a novel idea about text watermarking that it does not have any influence on changing the grammatical rules of the content and the layout. Authors manipulated the data to cover the specific data through providing a layout nondependent method.…”

Section: Digital Text Watermarking Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concise analysis of current text automation and watermarking approaches

Alkawaz

Sulong

Saba

et al. 2016

Security Comm Networks

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With ceaseless utilization of web and other online advances, it has turned out to be amazingly simple to imitate, discuss, and convey digital material. Subsequently, confirmation and copyright assurance issues have been emerged. Text is the most widely used media of communication on the web as compared with images and videos. The significant part of books, daily papers, websites, commercial, research papers, reports, and numerous different archives are just the plain text. Therefore, copyrights protection of plain text is a critical issue that could not be accepted at all. This paper presents a concise analysis on information hiding techniques and their consequences. Various watermarking systems properties are highlighted along with different types of attacks and their possible defenses. Additionally, the current applications for text document watermarking and the reasons for the problems of text document watermarking are described. Finally, attacks characteristics are discussed including types of attacks, volumes, and nature on text. Current watermarking approaches are reviewed in depth, and consequently, their advantages and weaknesses are highlighted.

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Section: Digital Text Watermarking Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concise analysis of current text automation and watermarking approaches

Alkawaz

Sulong

Saba

et al. 2016

Security Comm Networks

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“…In the literature, the techniques employed to provide the necessary copyright protection and integrity robustness for digital content are known as digital watermarking. A watermark is a signature or unique logo of an organization or individual who owns the rights to digital content [ 1 ] and typically contains information related to the copyrights, ownership, publisher, and document information [ 2 ]. Watermarking extends the information in the cover text and becomes an attribute of the watermarked document, in which “the object of communication is the packaging and the hidden message only references that packaging” [ 3 ].…”

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“…Security issues of text-watermarking are the characteristic of its specific requirements and features and differ greatly from those of other multimedia watermarking schemes [ 6 ]. For example, it is relatively easy to insert watermark data into images as compared with plain text since the images contain plenty of redundant areas allowing the watermark data to be inserted whilst retaining perceptual similarity with the original file [ 2 ]. Plain text, on the other hand, has a clear structure and little/no redundant data (as found in the case of many languages including English), which negatively affects both the watermark capacity and security [ 7 ], therefore increasing the difficulty involved addressing this research problem.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents

Tayan

Kabir

Alginahi

2014

The Scientific World Journal

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This paper addresses the problems and threats associated with verification of integrity, proof of authenticity, tamper detection, and copyright protection for digital-text content. Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing the challenge of sensitive plain-text media under known constraints. Specifically, with text as the predominant online communication medium, it becomes crucial that techniques are deployed to protect such information. A number of digital-signature, hashing, and watermarking schemes have been proposed that essentially bind source data or embed invisible data in a cover media to achieve its goal. While many such complex schemes with resource redundancies are sufficient in offline and less-sensitive texts, this paper proposes a hybrid approach based on zero-watermarking and digital-signature-like manipulations for sensitive text documents in order to achieve content originality and integrity verification without physically modifying the cover text in anyway. The proposed algorithm was implemented and shown to be robust against undetected content modifications and is capable of confirming proof of originality whilst detecting and locating deliberate/nondeliberate tampering. Additionally, enhancements in resource utilisation and reduced redundancies were achieved in comparison to traditional encryption-based approaches. Finally, analysis and remarks are made about the current state of the art, and future research issues are discussed under the given constraints.

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“…Therefore, demand is growing for intelligence and multimedia security studies that involve not only encryption, but also covert communication whose essence lies in concealing data [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ]. Recently, information hiding or data hiding in digital texts, known as text hiding, has drawn considerable attention due to its extensive usage, and potential applications in the cybersecurity and network communication industries [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 5...…”

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Modern Text Hiding, Text Steganalysis, and Applications: A Comparative Analysis

Ahvanooey

Hou

et al. 2019

Entropy

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Modern text hiding is an intelligent programming technique which embeds a secret message/watermark into a cover text message/file in a hidden way to protect confidential information. Recently, text hiding in the form of watermarking and steganography has found broad applications in, for instance, covert communication, copyright protection, content authentication, etc. In contrast to text hiding, text steganalysis is the process and science of identifying whether a given carrier text file/message has hidden information in it, and, if possible, extracting/detecting the embedded hidden information. This paper presents an overview of state of the art of the text hiding area, and provides a comparative analysis of recent techniques, especially those focused on marking structural characteristics of digital text message/file to hide secret bits. Also, we discuss different types of attacks and their effects to highlight the pros and cons of the recently introduced approaches. Finally, we recommend some directions and guidelines for future works.

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Digital text watermarking: secure content delivery and data hiding in digital documents

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Concise analysis of current text automation and watermarking approaches

Concise analysis of current text automation and watermarking approaches

A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents

Modern Text Hiding, Text Steganalysis, and Applications: A Comparative Analysis

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