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Collusion-secure fingerprinting for digital data
Abstract
This paper discusses methods for assigning code-words for the purpose of fingerprinting digital data, e.g., software, documents, music, and video. Fingerprinting consists of uniquely marking and registering each copy of the data. This marking allows a distributor to detect any unauthorized copy and trace it back to the user. This threat of detection will deter users from releasing unauthorized copies. A problem arises when users collude: for digital data, two different fingerprinted objects can be compared and the differences between them detected. Hence, a set of users can collude to detect the location of the fingerprint. They can then alter the fingerprint to mask their identities. We present a general fingerprinting solution which is secure in the context of collusion. In addition, we discuss methods for distributing fingerprinted data.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Boneh, D., & Shaw, J.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1897-1905
- ISSN
- 0018-9448 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2134195444
- Cited by
- 980
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 23.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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