Information Hiding : 8th International Workshop, IH 2006, Alexandria, VA, USA, July 10-12, 2006, Revised Seleceted Papers

The 8th International Workshop on Information Hiding was held in Alexandria, Virginia, in July 2006. This workshop drew leading experts in information security, software development, datamining, and computer sciences to present their findings and discuss the latest developments and applications in the field. This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the workshop. Twenty-five full papers are presented. Each one was carefully reviewed by the editors to ensure accuracy, thoroughness, and readability. The papers are organized into topical sections covering watermarking, information hiding and networking, data hiding in unusual content, fundamentals, software protection, steganalysis, steganography, and subliminal channels. Front Matter....Pages - Natural Watermarking: A Secure Spread Spectrum Technique for WOA....Pages 1-14 An Improved Asymmetric Watermarking System Using Matrix Embedding....Pages 15-25 A Cryptographic Method for Secure Watermark Detection....Pages 26-41 Steganographic Communication in Ordered Channels....Pages 42-57 Analyzing Network-Aware Active Wardens in IPv6....Pages 58-77 Video Watermarking by Using Geometric Warping Without Visible Artifacts....Pages 78-92 Time-Scale Invariant Audio Watermarking Based on the Statistical Features in Time Domain....Pages 93-108 Content-Aware Steganography: About Lazy Prisoners and Narrow-Minded Wardens....Pages 109-123 Noisy Timing Channels with Binary Inputs and Outputs....Pages 124-144 A Computational Model for Watermark Robustness....Pages 145-160 Hiding Information Hiding....Pages 161-171 Reversible Watermarking of NURBS-Based CAD Models....Pages 172-187 A High-Capacity Data Hiding Method for Polygonal Meshes....Pages 188-200 Steganography for Radio Amateurs— A DSSS Based Approach for Slow Scan Television....Pages 201-215 Delayed and Controlled Failures in Tamper-Resistant Software....Pages 216-231 A Model for Self-Modifying Code....Pages 232-248 A Markov Process Based Approach to Effective Attacking JPEG Steganography....Pages 249-264 Batch Steganography and Pooled Steganalysis....Pages 265-281 On Steganographic Embedding Efficiency....Pages 282-296 Bandwidth Optimal Steganography Secure Against Adaptive Chosen Stegotext Attacks....Pages 297-313 Modified Matrix Encoding Technique for Minimal Distortion Steganography....Pages 314-327 Statistically Secure Anti-Collusion Code Design for Median Attack Robustness for Practical Fingerprinting....Pages 328-342 A Collusion-Resistant Video Watermarking Scheme....Pages 343-354 An Elliptic Curve Backdoor Algorithm for RSASSA....Pages 355-374 A Subliminal-Free Variant of ECDSA....Pages 375-387 Back Matter....Pages - These proceedings contain the 25 papers that were accepted for presentation at the Eighth Information Hiding Conference, held July 10-12, 2006 in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. The paperswere selectedby the ProgramCommittee from more than 70 submissions on the basis of their novelty, originality, and scienti?c merit. We aregratefulto allauthorswho submitted their workforconsideration. The papers were divided into ten sessions [Watermarking, Information Hiding and Networking, Data Hiding in Unusual Content (2 sessions), Fundamentals, Software Protection, Steganalysis, Steganography (2 sessions), and Subliminal Channels], showing the breadth of research in the?eld. This year was an imp- tant one in the history of the IHW: "Workshop" was dropped from the name to show that the?eld has matured andthat the conference has become the premier venue for the dissemination of new results. The conference employed a double-blind reviewing process. Each paper was examined by at least three reviewers. Papers submitted by ProgramCommittee members were held to a higher standard. We relied on the advice of outside colleagues and would like to extend our thanks for their contribution to the paper selection process and their dedication to excellence in research This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2006, held in Alexandria, VA, USA in July 2006. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from over 70 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on watermarking, information hiding and networking, data hiding in unusual content, fundamentals, software protection, steganalysis, steganography, and subliminal channels

This volume constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Hiding held in Alexandria, Virginia, in July 2006. Twenty-five carefully reviewed full papers are organized into topical sections covering watermarking, information hiding and networking, data hiding in unusual content, fundamentals, software protection, steganalysis, steganography, and subliminal channels.