A blind reversible method for watermarking relational databases based on a time-stamping protocol

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3185-3196

  Farfoura, Mahmoud E ^a   Horng, Shi Jinn ^a   Lai, Jui Lin ^b   Run, Ray Shine ^b   Chen, Rong Jian ^b   Khan, Muhammad Khurram ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Blindness; Copyrights; Cryptography; Database attacks; Digital watermarking; Relational database; Reversible; Robustness

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS; BLINDNESS; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; DATABASE ATTACKS; DATABASE RELATIONS; DIGITAL ASSETS; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; INVERTIBLE WATERMARKS; MEDICAL DATA; PERMANENT DISTORTION; RELATIONAL DATABASE; REVERSIBLE; REVERSIBLE WATERMARK; REVERSIBLE WATERMARKING; TIME-STAMP; TIME-STAMPING PROTOCOL; WATERMARKING RELATIONAL DATABASE;

AUTHENTICATION; COPYRIGHTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

WATERMARKING;

EID: 80255123293     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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