Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2004

Abstract

By combining techniques of watermarking and fingerprinting, a sound buyer-seller watermarking protocol can address the issue of copyright protection in e-commerce. In this paper, we analyze the security of two recent anonymous buyer-seller watermarking protocols proposed by Ju et. al and Choi et. al respectively, and prove that they do not provide the features and security as claimed. In particular, we show that i) the commutative cryptosystem used in Choi et. als protocol fails to prevent the watermark certification authority (WCA) from discovering the watermark (fingerprint) chosen by the buyer; ii) for both protocols, the seller can discover the watermark chosen by the buyer if he colludes with the WCA. Hence, these protocols cannot guard against conspiracy attacks. We further show that these protocols only provide partial anonymity, ie. the buyers anonymity is guaranteed only if WCA is honest. Our results suggest that the security of these protocols must assume the honesty of WCA, contrary to the designers original claim. Finally, we propose a new anonymous buyer-seller watermarking protocol which is more secure and efficient, and provides true anonymity.

Keywords

Watermarking, Fingerprinting, Traitor Tracing, Copyright Protection, Anonymity

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

Applied Cryptography and Network Security: Second International Conference, ACNS 2004, Yellow Mountain, China, June 8-11, 2004: Proceedings

Volume

3089

First Page

369

Last Page

382

ISBN

9783540248521

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-540-24852-1_27

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Berlin

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24852-1_27

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