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This paper proposes a zero-distortion authentication watermarking to produce a watermarked signal. Without a designated decoder/player, the watermarked signal can be shown with the same quality as the original one. To this end, the scheme replaces the original signal with its equivalence in the embedding process. As an exemplary application, this concept is employed to authenticate palette images by regulating their palettes. Because the visual appearance of the watermarked image is not modified, there is no need to reconstruct the original image at all. The idea is also used to provide the software integrity protection by re-arranging the software instructions or modules to embed the authentication message. Because the software control flow and data flow remain unchanged, the watermarked software is equivalent to the original software. On the other hand, the instruction positions in the watermarked software represent the authentication message used for verification.
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Wu, Y. (2003). Zero-Distortion Authentication Watermarking. In: Boyd, C., Mao, W. (eds) Information Security. ISC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2851. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10958513_25
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