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Watermarking Is Not Cryptography

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Digital Watermarking (IWDW 2006)

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A number of analogies to cryptographic concepts have been made about watermarking. In this paper, we argue that these analogies are misleading or incorrect, and highlight several analogies to support our argument. We believe that the fundamental role of watermarking is the reliable embedding and detection of information and should therefore be considered a form of communications. We note that the fields of communications and cryptography are quite distinct and while communications systems often combine technologies from the two fields, a layered architecture is applied that requires no knowledge of the layers above. We discuss how this layered approach can be applied to watermarking applications.

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  1. University College London, Adastral Park, Ross Building 2, Martlesham, IP5 3RE, United Kingdom

    Ingemar J. Cox & Gwenaël Doërr

  2. INRIA / TEMICS, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Teddy Furon

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  1. New Jersey Institute of Technology,, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Yun Qing Shi

  2. Sung Kyun Kwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea

    Byeungwoo Jeon

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Cox, I.J., Doërr, G., Furon, T. (2006). Watermarking Is Not Cryptography. In: Shi, Y.Q., Jeon, B. (eds) Digital Watermarking. IWDW 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4283. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11922841_1

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