A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents

Joint Authors

Tayan, Omar
Kabir, Muhammad N.
Alginahi, Yasser M.

Source

The Scientific World Journal

Issue

Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-14, 14 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2014-08-28

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

14

Main Subjects

Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science

Abstract EN

This paper addresses the problems and threats associated with verification of integrity, proof of authenticity, tamper detection, and copyright protection for digital-text content.

Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing the challenge of sensitive plain-text media under known constraints.

Specifically, with text as the predominant online communication medium, it becomes crucial that techniques are deployed to protect such information.

A number of digital-signature, hashing, and watermarking schemes have been proposed that essentially bind source data or embed invisible data in a cover media to achieve its goal.

While many such complex schemes with resource redundancies are sufficient in offline and less-sensitive texts, this paper proposes a hybrid approach based on zero-watermarking and digital-signature-like manipulations for sensitive text documents in order to achieve content originality and integrity verification without physically modifying the cover text in anyway.

The proposed algorithm was implemented and shown to be robust against undetected content modifications and is capable of confirming proof of originality whilst detecting and locating deliberate/nondeliberate tampering.

Additionally, enhancements in resource utilisation and reduced redundancies were achieved in comparison to traditional encryption-based approaches.

Finally, analysis and remarks are made about the current state of the art, and future research issues are discussed under the given constraints.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Tayan, Omar& Kabir, Muhammad N.& Alginahi, Yasser M.. 2014. A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049920

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Tayan, Omar…[et al.]. A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents. The Scientific World Journal No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049920

American Medical Association (AMA)

Tayan, Omar& Kabir, Muhammad N.& Alginahi, Yasser M.. A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents. The Scientific World Journal. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049920

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1049920