Information leakage through document redaction: Attacks and countermeasures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5676, Issue , 2005, Pages 183-190

  Lopresti, Daniel ^a   Lawrence Spitz, A ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b DocRec Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Character shape coding; Declassification; Document analysis; Redaction; Security

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECODING; FACSIMILE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSERS;

CHARACTER SHAPE CODING (CSC); DECLASSIFICATION; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; REDACTION; SECURITY;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 21944435131     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.589552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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