
Disappearing Cryptography
Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking
Peter Wayner(Author)
Morgan Kaufmann (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 18. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-0-12-374479-1 (ISBN)
Description
Cryptology is the practice of hiding digital information by means of various obfuscatory and steganographic techniques. The application of said techniques facilitates message confidentiality and sender/receiver identity authentication, and helps to ensure the integrity and security of computer passwords, ATM card information, digital signatures, DVD and HDDVD content, and electronic commerce. Cryptography is also central to digital rights management (DRM), a group of techniques for technologically controlling the use of copyrighted material that is being widely implemented and deployed at the behest of corporations that own and create revenue from the hundreds of thousands of mini-transactions that take place daily on programs like iTunes.
This new edition of our best-selling book on cryptography and information hiding delineates a number of different methods to hide information in all types of digital media files. These methods include encryption, compression, data embedding and watermarking, data mimicry, and scrambling. During the last 5 years, the continued advancement and exponential increase of computer processing power have enhanced the efficacy and scope of electronic espionage and content appropriation. Therefore, this edition has amended and expanded outdated sections in accordance with new dangers, and includes 5 completely new chapters that introduce newer more sophisticated and refined cryptographic algorithms and techniques (such as fingerprinting, synchronization, and quantization) capable of withstanding the evolved forms of attack.
Each chapter is divided into sections, first providing an introduction and high-level summary for those who wish to understand the concepts without wading through technical explanations, and then presenting concrete examples and greater detail for those who want to write their own programs. This combination of practicality and theory allows programmers and system designers to not only implement tried and true encryption procedures, but also consider probable future developments in their designs, thus fulfilling the need for preemptive caution that is becoming ever more explicit as the transference of digital media escalates.
This new edition of our best-selling book on cryptography and information hiding delineates a number of different methods to hide information in all types of digital media files. These methods include encryption, compression, data embedding and watermarking, data mimicry, and scrambling. During the last 5 years, the continued advancement and exponential increase of computer processing power have enhanced the efficacy and scope of electronic espionage and content appropriation. Therefore, this edition has amended and expanded outdated sections in accordance with new dangers, and includes 5 completely new chapters that introduce newer more sophisticated and refined cryptographic algorithms and techniques (such as fingerprinting, synchronization, and quantization) capable of withstanding the evolved forms of attack.
Each chapter is divided into sections, first providing an introduction and high-level summary for those who wish to understand the concepts without wading through technical explanations, and then presenting concrete examples and greater detail for those who want to write their own programs. This combination of practicality and theory allows programmers and system designers to not only implement tried and true encryption procedures, but also consider probable future developments in their designs, thus fulfilling the need for preemptive caution that is becoming ever more explicit as the transference of digital media escalates.
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Series
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Cryptographers, digital rights managers, programmers, network security managers, information security professionals working in government agencies and industry, and general producers of electronic content.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 195 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
783 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-374479-1 (9780123744791)
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06/2009
3rd Edition
Morgan Kaufmann
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Person
Peter Wayner is a writer living in Baltimore and is the author of Digital Cash and Agents at Large (both Academic Press). His writings appear in numerous academic journals as well as the pages of more popular forums such as MacWorld and the New York Times. He has taught various computer science courses at Cornell University and Georgetown University.
Content
Chapter 1: Framing InformationChapter 2: EncryptionChapter 3: Error CorrectionChapter 4: Secret SharingChapter 5: CompressionChapter 6: Basic MimicryChapter 7: Grammars and MimicryChapter 8: Turing and ReverseChapter 9: Life in the NoiseChapter 10: Anonymous RemailersChapter 11: Secret BroadcastsChapter 12: KeysChapter 13: Ordering and ReorderingChapter 14: SpreadingChapter 15: Synthetic WorldsChapter 16: WatermarksChapter 17: SteganalysisChapter 18: Fingerprinting and Forensic WatermarkingChapter 19: SynchronizationChapter 20: ObfuscationChapter 21: TranslucencyChapter 22: QuantizationChapter 23: Forensics