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Constructions of almost secure frameproof codes with applications to fingerprinting schemes
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10623-017-0359-zThis paper presents explicit constructions of fingerprinting codes. The proposed constructions use a class of codes called almost secure frameproof codes. An almost secure frameproof code is a relaxed version of a secure frameproof code, which in turn is the same as a separating code. This relaxed version is the object of our interest because it gives rise to fingerprinting codes of higher rate than fingerprinting codes derived from separating codes. The construction of almost secure frameproof codes discussed here is based on weakly biased arrays, a class of combinatorial objects tightly related to weakly dependent random variables.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Improved Constructions of Frameproof Codes
Frameproof codes are used to preserve the security in the context of
coalition when fingerprinting digital data. Let be the largest
cardinality of a -ary -frameproof code of length and
. It has
been determined by Blackburn that when ,
when and is even, and . In this paper, we
give a recursive construction for -frameproof codes of length with
respect to the alphabet size . As applications of this construction, we
establish the existence results for -ary -frameproof codes of length
and size for all odd when and for all
when . Furthermore, we show that
meeting the upper bound given by Blackburn, for all integers such that
is a prime power.Comment: 6 pages, to appear in Information Theory, IEEE Transactions o
Almost separating and almost secure frameproof codes over q-ary alphabets
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10623-015-0060-zIn this paper we discuss some variations of the notion of separating code for alphabets of arbitrary size. We show how the original definition can be relaxed in two different ways, namely almost separating and almost secure frameproof codes, yielding two different concepts. The new definitions enable us to obtain codes of higher rate, at the expense of satisfying the separating property partially. These new definitions become useful when complete separation is only required with high probability, rather than unconditionally. We also show how the codes proposed can be used to improve the rate of existing constructions of families of fingerprinting codes.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Sequential and Dynamic Frameproof Codes
There are many schemes in the literature for protecting digital data
from piracy by the use of digital fingerprinting, such as frameproof codes and traitor-tracing schemes. The concept of traitor tracing has been applied to a digital broadcast setting in the form of dynamic traitor-tracing schemes and sequential traitor-tracing schemes, which could be used tocombat piracy of pay-TV broadcasts, for example. In this paper we extend the properties of frameproof codes to this dynamic model, defining and constructing both l-sequential frameproof codes and l-dynamic-frameproof codes. We also give bounds on the number of users supported by such schemes
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