Class Announcements

This page will have the latest announcements and changes, so please check it often.

1. I have updated the link to previous project summaries on the "Project" webpage.
2. I have updated the link to other reference books on the "Reading Assignments" webpsge (also on this page in next section).
   
3. 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

• Instructor:  Dr. Jennifer Davidson

      email:    davidson@iastate.edu

      Office:   438 Carver Hall

      Phone:   (515) 294-2941 , Fax: (515) 294-5454

• WebCT page
• Engineering Distance Education Website
• 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

1. 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
   • Managing Managed-Copy, Feb. 5, 2008
   • Backbone Security at the DoD Cyber Crime Conference 2008 Jan. 16, 2008
   • Fox decodes Apple DRM for DVD downloadable copies, Jan. 15, 2008
   • Sony Joins Other Labels on Amazon MP3 Store, Jan. 11, 2008
   • 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
   • 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
   • DVD pirates successfully plunder Academy Award screeners Jan. 13, 2006
   • MPAA and BitTorrent reach a deal     Nov. 27, 2005
   • Copy-protection bad for CDs  Dec. 6, 2005
   • Online Music buyers dissatisfied with DRM for tunes  Apr. 25, 2005
   • Studios settle lawsuit on DVD-copying chips  Apr. 14, 2005
   • University of Delaware performs steganalysis  Jan. 28, 2005
   • Teletrax will electronically track network promotional activity  Jan. 11, 2005
   • Watermarks being used in screener DVD disks Nov. 24, 2004
   • Verance will watermark Universal's film and video entertainment content  Oct. 14, 2003
   • Digimarc wins chance to compete to produce driver's licenses for Georgia using digital watermark technology Dec. 27, 2004
   • New York Times reports on filesharing - 4-6-04
   • RIAA Files Suit Against 531 Song-Swappers - 2-18-04
   • 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
   • Watermarked screener videotape shows up on Internet - watermark linked back to actor given tape.  Jan. 13, 2004
   • Link to USAToday's report on bin Laden using steganography  Feb. 5, 2001
2. Steganalysis
   • Dr. Jessica Fridrich's Digital Data Embedding Lab
3. Commercial Sites
   • Digital Watermarking World
   • Infosyssec
4. University Web Sites
   • Dr. Alessandro Piva's Website on Watermarking, in Florence, Italy
   • Dr. Frank Hartung's Webpage on Watermarking  -  a variety of researchers and labs, watermarking and DRM products, benchmarking tools, and conferences.
    
5. Software for Data Hiding:

   stegoarchive.com

   F5

Here are links to some conferences that are related to our class content.

1. Media Forensics and Security XII (SPIE)

2. Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII (SPIE)

3. The 7th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2009

4. IFIP Working Group 11.9 Digital Forensics

5. Information Hiding Workshop 2009

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Last Updated January 29, 2009