Digital Content Distribution System Research Articles

Confidentiality in medical images through a genetic-based steganography algorithm in artificial intelligence.

Nowadays, image steganography has an important role in hiding information in advanced applications, such as medical image communication, confidential communication and secret data storing, protection of data alteration, access control system for digital content distribution and media database systems. In these applications, one of the most important aspects is to hide information in a cover image whithout suffering any alteration. Currently, all existing approaches used to hide a secret message in a cover image produce some level of distortion in this image. Although these levels of distortion present acceptable PSNR values, this causes minimal visual degradation that can be detected by steganalysis techniques. In this work, we propose a steganographic method based on a genetic algorithm to improve the PSNR level reduction. To achieve this aim, the proposed algorithm requires a private key composed of two values. The first value serves as a seed to generate the random values required on the genetic algorithm, and the second value represents the sequence of bit locations of the secret medical image within the cover image. At least the seed must be shared by a secure communication channel. The results demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits higher capacity in terms of PNSR level compared with existing works.

Decentralized identifier based illegal digital content distribution tracking system using the format‐preserving encryption algorithm

AbstractThe coronavirus pandemic, which first began in December 2019, has completely changed our daily lives. In particular, daily online digital content consumption over the world has soared since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. For preventing illegal digital content distribution, various technologies have been applied, but current copyright protection technologies are still lacking to provide secure digital content distribution while preserving privacy. In this article, we introduce a new digital content distribution system, which utilizes blockchain‐based decentralized identifier and format‐preserving encryption to enable user privacy preserved digital content tracking. We present the system architecture with detailed message flows of the proposal and provide its analysis result in terms of security and overhead.

Fragile watermarking based on incomplete cryptography for copyright protection

In this work, a fragile watermarking method based on incomplete cryptography for copyright protection is proposed. Our proposed method solves the original content leakage problem of the conventional digital rights management (DRM) system, that is, the original contents are temporarily disclosed inside the user’s system. We include the fragile watermarking into the encryption and the decryption of the digital content distribution system via network. Our method can easily control the quality of original content in order to generate the scrambled content for trial before purchasing. Then, when the watermarked content is generated, the user information is simultaneously embedded into the scrambled content. Experimental results with simulation confirmed that our proposed method is successfully applied on the standard JPEG format and it seems to be suitable for real applications.

A Trade-off Traitor Tracing Scheme

There has been a wide-ranging discussion on the issue of content copyright protection in digital content distribution systems. Fiat and Tassa proposed the framework of dynamic traitor tracing. Their framework requires dynamic computation transactions according to the real-time responses of the pirate, and it presumes real-time observation of content redistribution. Therefore, it cannot be simply utilized in an application where such an assumption is not valid. In this paper, we propose a new scheme that provides the advantages of dynamic traitor tracing schemes and also overcomes their problems.

A multilayered digital content distribution using a group-key based on web

Web based distribution of multimedia digital content has been accelerated due to the increase in the use of the Internet. The major issue regarding the design of a multimedia digital content distribution system through the web is to guarantee the security of digital content and to supply a large amount of high quality multimedia digital content to users. This study focused on designing a security technique for each group in a multilayered structure, and on a caching technique, which is based on this security technique, and to improve the user’s response speed. Using these techniques guarantees the security of digital content distribution. We implemented the prototype and verified the performance of the proposed system through testing.

Distribution of digital contents based on public key considering execution speed and security

Information security is becoming a more important factor in distribution of digital contents. Generally, illegal facsimile of high-quality multimedia products such as DVDs, MP3s and AACs is possible without damaging quality. Thus, the illegal distribution of duplicated contents on the Web is causing digital content providers great economic loss. Therefore, a study of security and efficient distribution of digital contents is required. The most important issues in the design of a digital content distribution system are user convenience, execution speed and security. In this study, we designed a digital contents distribution system that uses web caching technology and encryption/ decryption techniques in hierarchical structures. We propose a digital content distribution system that improves user convenience, security and execution speed. The superior performance of the proposed system has been proven in the tests. The results of experiment show that the developed system has improved the security of DC without decreasing process speed.