Security of spread-spectrum-based data hiding

Luis Pérez-Freire, Pierre Moulin, Fernando Pérez-González

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Abstract

This paper presents an information-theoretic analysis of security for data hiding methods based on spread spectrum. The security is quantified by means of the mutual information between the observed watermarked signals and the secret carrier (a.k.a. spreading vector) that conveys the watermark, a measure that can be used to bound the number of observations needed to estimate the carrier up to a certain accuracy. The main results of this paper permit to establish fundamental security limits for this kind of methods and to draw conclusions about the tradeoffs between robustness and security. Specifically, the impact of the dimensionality of the embedding function, the host rejection, and the embedding distortion in the security level is investigated, and in some cases explicitly quantified.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Print)0819466182, 9780819466181
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
EventSecurity, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Jan 29 2007Feb 1 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume6505
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherSecurity, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period1/29/072/1/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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