Due to the widespread and population of internet, digital data is copied and reproduced easily, which generate the high demand for copyright protection. Digital watermarking is one of the most efficient methods to protect the digital data. Digital watermarking is the process of hiding digital signal into digital document. The digital signal is called watermark. This paper covers the basic concepts of digital and XML watermarkin

Fakhreldin, Mohammed Adam Ibrahim

Jasni, Mohamad Zain

Khalid, Edris

Tuty Asmawaty, Abdul Kadir

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XML Digital Watermarking Khalid Edris1, Mohammed Adam Ibrahim Fakharaldien2, Jasni Mohamed Zain3, Tuty Asmawaty Abdul Kadir4  Software Engineering Research Department,  Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering,  Universiti Malaysia Pahang 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia Khalod07@yahoo.com, mohammedfakeraldeen@yahoo.com, jasni@ump.edu, tuty@ump.edu Abstract. Due to the widespread and population of internet, digital data is copied and reproduced easily, which generate the high demand for copyright protection. Digital watermarking is one of the most efficient methods to protect the digital data. Digital watermarking is the process of hiding digital signal into digital document. The digital signal is called watermark. This paper covers the basic concepts of digital and XML watermarking.  Keywords: Digital watermarking, Copyright protection, Attack, XML. 1 Introduction With the increasing of using internet, people can share and access information without difficulty, also they can sent or receive any type of data such as text, image, audio, and video. Now a day’s many educational, banks, organizations, and industries use internet for their working and transactions, so it is very important to protect the data from illegal users, access and copy. To protect data there are many ways like cryptography, steganography and watermarking, the best way is digital watermarking.  Digital watermarking is the process of embedding information into digital signal, which used to verify the authenticity or the integrity of the signal or to show the identity of its owners. Digital watermarking can be used for copyright protection, owner identification to identify the owner, finger printing to identify the customer, broadcast monitoring and authentication to determine whether the data is changed or not.  2 Digital Watermarking Phases Digital watermarking process composed of three stages: 2.1 Embedding: In embedding, an algorithm accepts the host and the data to be embedded, and produces a watermarked signal. The watermark is embedded in the original signal; the watermarked digital signal is transmitted to another user.   2.2 Attack: Normally the attack happened when someone makes a modification. However, modification may not be malicious; the term attack arises from copyright protection application, where third parties may attempt to remove the digital watermark through modification.  2.3 Detection:  Detection or extraction is a method which is applied to the attacked signal to attempt to extract the watermark from it. If the signal cannot modify during transmission process, then the watermark still is present and it can be extracted. In robust digital watermarking applications, the extraction method must produce the watermark correctly, even if the modifications were strong. While in fragile digital watermarking, the extraction method must fail if any change is made to the signal [1].            Fig.1. Fundamental Process of digital watermarking  3 Basic Characteristic of Digital Watermarking There are a number of characteristics, the most important of them are: 3.1 Robustness:  Robustness refers to that the watermark embedded in data has the ability of surviving after many processing operations and attacks. Then, the watermark must be robust for general signal processing operation, geometric transformation and malicious attack. The watermark for copyright protection does need strongest robustness and can resist malicious attacks, while fragile watermarking; annotation watermarking do not need resist malicious attacks.       3.2 Imperceptibility: Means the watermark can be detected by special processing or special circuits and undetectable by a human perceptual system [2].   3.3 Security:  The ability of watermarks to prevent illegal users from tampering, then the watermark only can be detected or extracted by authorized users.    3.4 Capacity:  Watermarking capacity is the size or number of bit information that can be hidden into content signal.  3.5 Complexity: Complexity is concerned with the time needed to embed, detect, and extract the watermark from content [3, 8]. 4 Classification of Digital Watermarking: Digital watermarking can be classified into different categories according to many different features as follow [2]:  4.1 According to the type of documents: The important types are: i. Image watermarking: add watermark in the image. ii. Video watermarking: embed information in the video stream. iii. Audio watermarking: add watermark to the audio. iv. Text watermarking: add watermark to PDF, DOC, XML and other text file to prevent changes of text.   4.2 According to the working domain: i. Spatial domain watermarking: The watermark embedding is done on image pixels, it is simple and with low complexity, but it is more prone to attack. ii. Frequency domain watermarking: The watermark embedding is done on the image after converting the image into frequency domain; it is complicate, but more robust than spatial domain.   4.3 According to the human perception: There are three types: i. Visible watermarks: The watermark is added to the image but it is transparent, the watermark is appeared to the viewer.   ii. Invisible watermarking: The watermark is embedded in the original image that it cannot be seen by human eye. iii. Dual watermarking: Is a combination of visible and invisible watermarks, the invisible watermark is used to as backup for the visible watermark.  4.4 According to the ability of watermark to resist attack: i. Fragile watermarks: Fragile watermark is designed in a way that any modification will effect in the watermark, it is very sensitive to the changes of signals and it used for integrity protection.   ii. Robust watermarks: The watermark is not destroyed after some attack and can be extracted, thus it is used in copyright protection.  4.5 According to the detection process: i. Blind extracting watermark: This type of watermarking does not need the original data in the watermark detection and extraction. Watermark detection becomes difficult when the watermarked data is destroyed. ii. Non-blind extracting watermark: Non-blind or visual watermarking needs the original data in the watermark detection and extraction. It has stronger robustness but it is used with limited application [1, 2, 5, 6]. 5 Digital watermarking attacks: Attacks on watermarks happened by accidental or intentional. Accidental attacks may cause due to the standard image processing or due to the compression procedures. There are many categorizations of attacks on watermarks. The Following are the methods of attacks according to robustness and Perceptibility: 5.1 Mosaic attack:  This attack usually happened with pictures and displayed it as to confuse watermark-searching program, known as “Web Crawler”.  5.2 Geometric attack: This type of attack usually attack images, documents and audio files.  Geometric attack can be classified as: 5.2.1 Subtractive attack: Subtractive attack happened in the area of located watermark if imperceptible then removing the mark by cropping or digital editing. It performed on robust watermark.   5.2.2 Distortive attack: Attacker tries to make some distortive changes in the images such that mark becomes unrecognizable. This attack performed on robust watermark.   5.3 Stirmark attack: Stirmark attack can be defined as generic tool developed for simple robustness techniques of image marking algorithms and steganographic techniques. Stirmark can simulate resampling process in which it introduces same kind of errors into an image to print it on high quality printer and scanning it again with high quality scanner.  5.4 Forgery attack: In this attack, the attacker adds watermark overlaying to the original image to marking the content as their own.  5.5 Inversion attack: In this attack, the attacker when receives watermarked data claim that data contains his watermark by declaring part of data as his watermark. The attacker also can easily generate the original data by subtracting the claimed watermark.  5.6 Cryptanalysis attack: It is a way in which attacker attempts to find the decryption key for an encrypted pieces of information so that it can be made useful again [8, 9]. 6 Applications of digital watermarking: There are different types of watermarking applications; the most important applications are described ass following: 6.1 Copyright protection: By identify the ownership; Digital watermarking can be sued for copyright protection to deny the other parties from claiming the copyrights.   6.2 Finger print: Digital watermarking is used to recognize the content buyers by giving the information about the customers like serial number, which help to trace the source of illegal copies.    6.3 Content authentication: Authentication is very important to use because it confirm the integrity of watermarked data and to make sure that the data is not being tampered.  6.4 Copy protection: Copy protection is a set of rules used to deny people from making illegal copies of the content. These rules can be like “this document may not be copied, or this document may be copied but no copies may be made of the copy”.   6.5 Broadcast monitoring: Digital watermarking can be sued to protect broadcasted content like TV from illegal transmission. Watermark identifies the owner of the content, when it detected with the aid of automated system monitor when and where the content appears [1, 4, 7]. 7 XML digital watermarking: 7.1 Brief introduction of the XML documents XML or Extensible Markup Language is used to establish the markup language. It is put forward by W3C to overcome the limitations of HTML (or Hypertext Markup Language), which is the basis for all websites. Similar to HTML, XML is based on SGML, or Standard Generalized Markup. Though SGML has already exited in the publishing industry for several decades, its complexity has discouraged many people who have the intention to use it.   Since XML was put forward in 1998 by W3C many researches has been put, however, the major of these researches in XML security. The research focus has shifted from XML documents’ digital-signature and encryption to its visit control and security protocol, etc. Currently, some new requirements for security have been constantly in the spotlight, such as copyright protection of XML documents. Therefore, XML digital watermarking technology has come into being.   7.2 Research situation of XML digital-watermarking XML has provided a method to describe data and it is suitable for many applications. With the development of network technology, more data are expressed in XML. Since XML documents are texts, to copy XML documents is very simple. This puts XML documents at the threat of illegal copy. Therefore, it is very important to solve the problem of copyright protection of XML documents. There are three kinds of message similar to XML documents, namely text, database and website. The research of the digital-watermarking of database and network has achieved certain progress. Due to the fact that XML documents are semi-structured data, it is practicable to imply its structure and data to embed into the watermarking message. XML can establish documents seemingly different while the same data or semantic value. This differs from the structure of the entities, the arrangement of the attributes, encoding of the characters or unnoticeable margins. Currently,, researchers mainly focus on the study of XML digital watermarking technology based on XML logical structure and content. It can generally be classified into four types as follows [10]: 7.2.1 XML digital-watermarking based on the logical structure  Based on research findings of the message hiding method of XML, there are mainly five methods for the message hiding of XML documents. These methods can classify as follows:  (1) Blank elements When the element doesn’t include any markup, it is called blank element, which can be illustrated by the following two examples, that is the line feed of HTML (<br>) and image (<img>). In the blank elements of the XML documents, the ending slash can be put at the beginning markup. The above mentioned two examples are the same to the XML analyzer.           <br></br>     <br/>          <img src="xml/img/c.gif"></img>     <img src="xml/img/c.gif" /> Thus, different blank elements can be employed to embed into watermarking message. The application of <img></img> calls for that the byte of the hided watermarking message should be zero, and in terms of “<img/>”, the byte should be 1. XML document before the adding of watermark:     <img src=”f1.jpg”></img>     <img src=”f2.jpg”></img>     <img src=”f3.jpg”></img>     <img src=”f4.jpg”></img>     <img src=”f5.jpg”></img> Watermarking message needs to be added: 10110 XML document after the adding of the watermark message:     <img src=”f1.jpg”/>     <img src=”f2.jpg”></img>     <img src=”f3.jpg”/>     <img src=”f4.jpg”/>     <img src=”f5.jpg”></img> (2) Blank space within the markup Blank space can be used in many places in XML document, like blank character, tab character, carriage return and line feed. Sometimes, the adding of the blank space is to indent the XML documents; while in other conditions, the blank space of XML documents can be added into the watermarking message. Whether to add blank space to the ending of the markup or not is to express the same message. By taking advantage of the attribute, it can be embedded into the watermarking message. Use <tag>, </tag> and <tag/> to express the byte of the hided watermarking message as 0; Use <tag>, </tag > and <tag/ > to express the byte of the hided watermarking message as 1. The XML document before the adding of the watermark:     <user><name>Alice</name></user>     <user><name>Bob</name></user> The watermark message to be added: 1010 0101 The document after adding watermark:     <user ><name>Alice</name ></user>     <user><name >Bob</name></user > (3) To change the order of the element Watermark message can be embedded by changing the element order of XML documents: <tag1><tag2>data</tag2></tag1> to express the byte of the hided watermark message as 0   <tag2><tag1>data</tag1></tag2> to express the byte of the hided watermark message as 1  (4) To change the attribute order Watermark message can be imbedded by changing the attribute order of the XML document: <tag att=”att1” att=”att2”/> is to express the byte of the hided watermark message as 0. <tag att=”att2” att=”att1”/> is to express the byte of the hided watermark message as 1. (5) Element embedding When element embedding is used for digital-watermarking design, tags should be mutually embedded. For example, <tag1> and <tag2> can be mutually embedded. Thus, they are practicable. <tag1><tag2>data<tag1><tag2> is to show the byte of the hided watermark message as 0 <tag2><tag1>data<tag2><tag1>is to show the byte of the hided watermark message as 1  7.2.2 XML digital-watermarking combining the logical structures and content The process of combining the logical structure and its content in XML watermarking   normally can be done in two steps: Firstly, node content of the XML documents can be images, text, data, software, etc. Taking advantage of the watermark algorithms, part of the watermark is embedded into the node content.  Finally, the watermark is assembled into the whole watermark through the logical structure of XML documents or tree structure. 7.2.3 XML digital-watermarking based on statement enquiry David Gross-Amblard proposed the methods of XML digital-watermarking based on the parameterized statement inquiry [12, 13, 14]. 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