Contrary to multimedia data watermarking approaches, it is not recommended that relational data watermarking techniques consider sequential selection for marks in the watermark and embedding locations in the protected digital asset. Indeed, considering the database relations' elements, i.e., tuples and attributes, when watermarking techniques are based on sequential processes, watermark detection can be easily compromised by performing subset reverse order attacks. As a result, attackers can obtain owner evidence-free high-quality data since no data modifications for mark removing are required for the malicious operation to succeed. A standard solution to this problem has been pseudo-random selection, which often leads to choosing the same marks multiple times, and ignoring others, thus compromising the embedding of the entire watermark. This work proposes an engine that contributes to controlling marks' recurrent selection, allowing marks excluded by previous approaches to be considered and detected with 100% accuracy. The experiments performed show a dramatic improvement of the embedded watermark quality when the proposed engine is included in watermarking techniques' architecture. They also provide evidence that this proposal leads to higher resilience against common malicious operations such as subset and superset attacks.

Reducing Multiple Occurrences of Meta-Mark Selection in Relational Data Watermarking

PÉREZ GORT, Maikel Lázaro;OLLIARO, Martina.;CORTESI,Agostino.
2022-01-01

Abstract

Contrary to multimedia data watermarking approaches, it is not recommended that relational data watermarking techniques consider sequential selection for marks in the watermark and embedding locations in the protected digital asset. Indeed, considering the database relations' elements, i.e., tuples and attributes, when watermarking techniques are based on sequential processes, watermark detection can be easily compromised by performing subset reverse order attacks. As a result, attackers can obtain owner evidence-free high-quality data since no data modifications for mark removing are required for the malicious operation to succeed. A standard solution to this problem has been pseudo-random selection, which often leads to choosing the same marks multiple times, and ignoring others, thus compromising the embedding of the entire watermark. This work proposes an engine that contributes to controlling marks' recurrent selection, allowing marks excluded by previous approaches to be considered and detected with 100% accuracy. The experiments performed show a dramatic improvement of the embedded watermark quality when the proposed engine is included in watermarking techniques' architecture. They also provide evidence that this proposal leads to higher resilience against common malicious operations such as subset and superset attacks.
2022
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