Math 535 Spring 2009
Steganography, Steganalysis & Watermarking

Class Announcements
This page will have the latest announcements
and changes, so please check it often.
- I have updated the link to previous project summaries on the "Project" webpage.
- I have updated the link to other reference books on the "Reading Assignments" webpsge (also on this page in next section).
- The stego images for homework 1 are now available here.
General Information
- Lecture: TR 12:40 p.m. - 1:50 p.m., 1242 Howe Hall
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Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Davidson
email: davidson@iastate.edu
Office: 438 Carver Hall
Phone: (515) 294-2941 , Fax: (515)
294-5454
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WebCT page
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Engineering
Distance Education Website
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Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11-12; Mondays 1-2.
- Required textbook:
Title: Digital Watermarking and Steganography, 2nd ed.
Authors: Cox, Miller, Bloom, Fridrich, and Kalker
Published in 2008 by Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-12-372585-1
- Other reference books
- Course Goals
Web Links
- News Reports
- Steganography with TCP retransmissions, May 29,2009
- Steganography meets VoIP in hacker world Sep. 13, 2009
- After Winning the Format War, Blu-ray’s Future Looks Bright, Mar. 13,
2008
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Managing Managed-Copy, Feb. 5, 2008
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Backbone
Security at the DoD Cyber Crime Conference 2008 Jan. 16, 2008
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Fox decodes Apple DRM for DVD downloadable copies, Jan. 15, 2008
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Sony
Joins Other Labels on Amazon MP3 Store, Jan. 11, 2008
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Research Shows Image-Based Threat on the Rise October 18, 2007
- Microsoft hit with
$1.5 billion patent verdict
February 22, 2007
- Hiding messages
in plain sight, BBC News,
Feb. 15, 2007
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Philips designs watermark system to curb video piracy,
Feb. 21, 2006
- Trade Group Seeks to
Facilitate Content and Technology Sector Collaboration
, Jan. 12, 2006
- Sony
May Settle CD Lawsuit Jan. 3, 2006
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DVD pirates
successfully plunder Academy Award screeners
Jan. 13, 2006
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MPAA and
BitTorrent reach a deal Nov. 27, 2005
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Copy-protection bad for CDs Dec. 6, 2005
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Online Music
buyers dissatisfied with DRM for tunes Apr. 25, 2005
- Studios settle
lawsuit on DVD-copying chips Apr. 14, 2005
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University of Delaware performs steganalysis
Jan. 28, 2005
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Teletrax will
electronically track network promotional activity Jan. 11, 2005
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Watermarks being used in screener DVD disks
Nov. 24, 2004
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Verance will watermark Universal's film and video entertainment content
Oct. 14, 2003
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Digimarc wins chance to compete to produce driver's licenses for Georgia
using digital watermark technology Dec.
27, 2004
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New York Times reports on filesharing - 4-6-04
- RIAA Files
Suit Against 531 Song-Swappers - 2-18-04
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Lawsuit Dropped
Against DVD Copy-Protection Hack - 1/23/04
- Another article on the same
topic: DVD Descrambling Code Not a Trade Secret - DVD CCA Surrenders in Bunner DVD
Descrambling Case 1-23-04
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Watermarked screener videotape shows up on Internet - watermark linked
back to actor given tape. Jan. 13, 2004
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Link to
USAToday's report on bin Laden using steganography Feb. 5, 2001
- Steganalysis
- Commercial Sites
- University Web Sites
- Software for Data Hiding:
stegoarchive.com
F5
Here are links to
some conferences that are related to our class content.
- Media Forensics and Security XII (SPIE)
Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII
(SPIE)
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The 7th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2009
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IFIP
Working Group 11.9 Digital Forensics
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Information Hiding Workshop 2009
Copyright 2003-9, J.L. Davidson, all pages
created by Davidson for this class.
Last Updated January 29, 2009