Blind PDF Document Watermarking Robust Against PCA and ICA Attacks

Makram W. Hatoum, Rony Darazi, Jean-François Couchot

2018

Abstract

Spread Transform Dither Modulation (STDM) is a blind watermarking scheme used for its high robustness against re-quantization and random noise attacks. It has been applied mainly on images, speech, and PDF documents. The key of this scheme is the projection vector aiming at spreading the embedded message over a set of cover elements. However, it has been recently shown that such a key vector can be estimated thanks to Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques, e.g. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). This security breach can be harnessed by an opponent to copy, remove, or modify the embedded watermark. In this position paper, a CAR-STDM (Component Analysis Resistant-STDM) is designed and its application on PDF documents is presented. The security is guaranteed by the use of a cryptographically secure number generator, preventing algebraic approaches (as BSS ones) from finding the key. First experimental results show that the Secure-STDM achieves the security against the aforementioned BSS techniques. It is further shown that CAR-STDM preserves its robustness against AWGN and Salt&Peper attacks, and keeps furthermore its transparency.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hatoum M., Darazi R. and Couchot J. (2018). Blind PDF Document Watermarking Robust Against PCA and ICA Attacks.In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-319-3, pages 420-427. DOI: 10.5220/0006899604200427

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt18,
author={Makram W. Hatoum and Rony Darazi and Jean-François Couchot},
title={Blind PDF Document Watermarking Robust Against PCA and ICA Attacks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: SECRYPT,},
year={2018},
pages={420-427},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006899604200427},
isbn={978-989-758-319-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: SECRYPT,
TI - Blind PDF Document Watermarking Robust Against PCA and ICA Attacks
SN - 978-989-758-319-3
AU - Hatoum M.
AU - Darazi R.
AU - Couchot J.
PY - 2018
SP - 420
EP - 427
DO - 10.5220/0006899604200427