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We introduce two novel collusion attacks against digital fingerprinting using additive spread-spectrum watermarks. These attacks demonstrate that the He-Wu fingerprinting system is considerably less secure against collusive attacks than suggested by the original paper. In addition to causing error rates above 85% at the decoder with as few as 8 colluders, one of our two attacks give copies with less distortion (measured by Euclidean distance) than the fingerprinted copies originally distributed.
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Schaathun, H.G. (2008). Attack Analysis for He & Wu’s Joint Watermarking/Fingerprinting Scheme. In: Shi, Y.Q., Kim, HJ., Katzenbeisser, S. (eds) Digital Watermarking. IWDW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5041. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92238-4_5
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