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Multiparty watermarking protocol based on blockchain

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With the development of multimedia and the Internet, the problem of multimedia copyright infringement has become more and more serious. The combination of digital watermark and security protocol plays a vital role in copyright protection of multimedia in the up-to-date open network environment. Most of the existing schemes involve trusted third parties and arbitration institutions, but they are not usually credible. This paper proposes a new watermarking protocol with multiple parties based on the blockchain. The protocol involves the buyer, the seller, the cloud platform and the blockchain. In the protocol, the certificateless secret key negotiation between the buyer and the seller is utilized to avoid “Man-in-the-middle Attack”, and the cloud platform is used to perform homomorphic calculations and watermark embedding operation. By using the characteristics of the blockchain such as non-tamperability and traceability, the security and fairness of the protocol can be ensured.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Science and Technology Research Project of Henan Province (Grant No. 212102210413, 222102210029), the Key Program of Higher Education Institutions of Henan Province (23A520009), the Special Project of Smart Teaching for Ordinary Undergraduate Colleges and Universities in Henan Province, the Curriculum Reform Research Project of Teacher Education of Henan Province (2022-JSJYYB-003), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61901160).

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  1. College of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, China

    Ming Li, Yuwen Wang & Guoqi Liu

  2. Engineering Lab of Intelligence Business & Internet of Things, Xinxiang, Henan Province, China

    Ming Li & Guoqi Liu

  3. Department of Network Technology, Software Engineering Institute of Guangzhou, 510990, Guangzhou, China

    Leilei Zeng & Le Zhao

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Li, M., Zeng, L., Zhao, L. et al. Multiparty watermarking protocol based on blockchain. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 367–379 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15691-5

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