A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents

This paper addresses the problems and threats associated with verification of integrity, proof of authenticity, tamper detection, and copyright protection for digital-text content. Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing th...

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Main Authors:	M. Nomani, Kabir, Tayan, Omar, Alginahi, Yasser M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/1/A_Hybrid_Digital-Signature_and_Zero-Watermarking_Approach_for_Authentication_and_Protection_of_Sensitive_Electronic_Documents.pdf

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spelling	ump-78572018-09-25T08:47:04Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents M. Nomani, Kabir Tayan, Omar Alginahi, Yasser M. QA76 Computer software This paper addresses the problems and threats associated with verification of integrity, proof of authenticity, tamper detection, and copyright protection for digital-text content. Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing the challenge of sensitive plain-text media under known constraints. Specifically, with text as the predominant online communication medium, it becomes crucial that techniques are deployed to protect such information. A number of digital-signature, hashing, and watermarking schemes have been proposed that essentially bind source data or embed invisible data in a cover media to achieve its goal. While many such complex schemes with resource redundancies are sufficient in offline and less-sensitive texts, this paper proposes a hybrid approach based on zero-watermarking and digital-signature-like manipulations for sensitive text documents in order to achieve content originality and integrity verification without physically modifying the cover text in anyway. The proposed algorithm was implemented and shown to be robust against undetected content modifications and is capable of confirming proof of originality whilst detecting and locating deliberate/nondeliberate tampering. Additionally, enhancements in resource utilisation and reduced redundancies were achieved in comparison to traditional encryption-based approaches. Finally, analysis and remarks are made about the current state of the art, and future research issues are discussed under the given constraints. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/1/A_Hybrid_Digital-Signature_and_Zero-Watermarking_Approach_for_Authentication_and_Protection_of_Sensitive_Electronic_Documents.pdf M. Nomani, Kabir and Tayan, Omar and Alginahi, Yasser M. (2014) A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents. The Scientific World Journal, 2014. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2356-6140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/514652 DOI: 10.1155/2014/514652
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spellingShingle	QA76 Computer software M. Nomani, Kabir Tayan, Omar Alginahi, Yasser M. A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents
description	This paper addresses the problems and threats associated with verification of integrity, proof of authenticity, tamper detection, and copyright protection for digital-text content. Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing the challenge of sensitive plain-text media under known constraints. Specifically, with text as the predominant online communication medium, it becomes crucial that techniques are deployed to protect such information. A number of digital-signature, hashing, and watermarking schemes have been proposed that essentially bind source data or embed invisible data in a cover media to achieve its goal. While many such complex schemes with resource redundancies are sufficient in offline and less-sensitive texts, this paper proposes a hybrid approach based on zero-watermarking and digital-signature-like manipulations for sensitive text documents in order to achieve content originality and integrity verification without physically modifying the cover text in anyway. The proposed algorithm was implemented and shown to be robust against undetected content modifications and is capable of confirming proof of originality whilst detecting and locating deliberate/nondeliberate tampering. Additionally, enhancements in resource utilisation and reduced redundancies were achieved in comparison to traditional encryption-based approaches. Finally, analysis and remarks are made about the current state of the art, and future research issues are discussed under the given constraints.
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author	M. Nomani, Kabir Tayan, Omar Alginahi, Yasser M.
author_facet	M. Nomani, Kabir Tayan, Omar Alginahi, Yasser M.
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title	A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents
title_short	A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents
title_full	A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents
title_fullStr	A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents
title_full_unstemmed	A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents
title_sort	hybrid digital-signature and zero-watermarking approach for authentication and protection of sensitive electronic documents
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2014
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7857/1/A_Hybrid_Digital-Signature_and_Zero-Watermarking_Approach_for_Authentication_and_Protection_of_Sensitive_Electronic_Documents.pdf
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