Digital fingerprinting is an emerging technology to protect multimedia from unauthorized use by embedding a unique fingerprint signal into each user’s copy. A robust embedding algorithm is an important building block in order to make the fingerprint resilient to various distortions and collusion attacks. Spread spectrum embedding has been widely used for multimedia fingerprinting. In this paper...

rticle history: eceived 30 November 2012 eceived in revised form 30 April 2013 ccepted 14 June 2013 vailable online xxxx eywords: adio fingerprinting mpersonation attack hysical layer security ardware security Recently, physical layer security commonly known as Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting has been proposed to provide an additional layer of security for wireless devices. A unique RF fing...

Flow fingerprinting is a mechanism for linking obfuscated network flows at large scale. In this paper, we introduce the first blind flow fingerprinting system called TagIt. Our system works by modulating fingerprint signals into the timing patterns of network flows through slightly delaying packets into secret time intervals only known to the fingerprinting parties. We design TagIt to to enable...

Research that began a decade ago in video copy detection has developed into a technology known as “video fingerprinting”. Today, video fingerprinting is an essential and enabling tool adopted by the industry for video content identification and management in online video distribution. This paper provides a comprehensive review of video fingerprinting technology and its applications in identifyi...

Website fingerprinting enables an attacker to infer the source of a web page when a client is browsing through encrypted or anonymized network connections. We present a new website fingerprinting attack based on fingerprints extracted from random decision forests and evaluate performance on three separate data sets consisting of both standard web pages as well as Tor hidden services. Within the...

DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis--a relatively new laboratory technique--offers promise as a powerful aid in the prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB). Established in 1996 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network was a 5-year prospective, population-based study of DNA fingerprinting conducted fro...

Fingerprinting schemes enable a merchant to identify the buyer of an illegally distributed digital good by providing each buyer with a slightly different version. Asymmetric fingerprinting schemes further prevent the merchant from framing a buyer by making the fingerprinted version known to the buyer only. In addition, an anonymous fingerprinting scheme allows the buyer to purchase goods withou...

Digital fingerprinting of multimedia data involves embedding information in the content, and offers protection to the digital rights of the content by allowing illegitimate usage of the content to be identified by authorized parties. One potential threat to fingerprints is collusion, whereby a group of adversaries combine their individual copies in an attempt to remove the underlying fingerprin...

DNA fingerprints led to the identification of closely related plant species and it is one of the tool for assessing genetic diversity and species relationship. DNA is most stable and does not vary seasonally and with age of the plant. DNA based fingerprinting techniques plays greater role in authentication of botanicals. This review gives an outline about the importance of DNA fingerprinting, D...