Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and
Countermeasures deals with information hiding. With the proliferation
of multimedia on the Internet, information hiding addresses two areas of
concern: privacy of information from surveillance (steganography) and
protection of intellectual property (digital watermarking).
Steganography (literally, covered writing) explores methods to hide
the existence of hidden messages. These methods include invisible ink,
microdot, digital signature, covert channel, and spread spectrum
communication. Digital watermarks represent a commercial application of
steganography. Watermarks can be used to track the copyright and
ownership of electronic media.
In this volume, the authors focus on techniques for hiding information
in digital media. They analyze the hiding techniques to uncover their
limitations. These limitations are employed to devise attacks against
hidden information. The goal of these attacks is to expose the existence
of a secret message or render a digital watermark unusable. In assessing
these attacks, countermeasures are developed to assist in protecting
digital watermarking systems. Understanding the limitations of the
current methods will lead us to build more robust methods that can
survive various manipulation and attacks.
The more information that is placed in the public's reach on the
Internet, the more owners of such information need to protect themselves
from theft and false representation. Systems to analyze techniques for
uncovering hidden information and recover seemingly destroyed
information will be useful to law enforcement authorities in computer
forensics and digital traffic analysis.
Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and
Countermeasures presents the authors' research contributions in three
fundamental areas with respect to image-based steganography and
watermarking: analysis of data hiding techniques, attacks against hidden
information, and countermeasures to attacks against digital
watermarks.
Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking &endash; Attacks
and Countermeasures is suitable for a secondary text in a graduate
level course, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in
industry.
