Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and Countermeasures [Hardcover]

Neil F. Johnson (Author), Zoran Duric (Author), Sushil Jajodia (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0792372042 | ISBN-13: 978-0792372042 | Publication Date: December 31, 2000 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`This is an excellent book that describes the newest advances in steganography and watermaking, which employ state-of-the-art computer techniques, and the countermeasures needed to survive these latest manipulations and attacks.' Cryptologia, XXV:3 (2001) `Overall, the book consists of a very nice collection of survey articles and I would recommend it to anyone interested in this fascinating subject.' Journal of Electronic Imaging, 10:3 (2001)

About the Author

Dr. Sushil Jajodia is Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Information and Software Engineering, and Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792372042
• ISBN-13: 978-0792372042
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,615,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction though overpriced, August 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and Countermeasures (Hardcover)

I found this book to contain an excellent introduction to steganography and watermarking that does not require an engineering degree to understand. This book goes into much more detail into the attacks against steganography and watermarking and illustrates novel appraches to counter. Though a bit overpriced, this book is a great companion to the Katzenbeisser, Petitcolas book. (Sounds like one reviewer has a personal beef.)

9 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless book, August 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and Countermeasures (Hardcover)

This looks like the PhD thesis of the first author. I feel amazed at how can someone get a PhD for unscientific work like this. The treatment of the subject is shallow to say the least. And it sells at almost a dollar a page!! I think someone interested in Steganography is better of buying the Petitcolas book which though not great is still reasonable.