Transparent System for Digital Media Copyright Protection in Mobile Business

At present, in mobile business, the secure environment in the terminal of users has not been embedded, many cryptology-based methods can not be directly used to protect the copyright of digital media. Under this situation, a transparent system based on watermark for digital right management and digital copyright protection is proposed in this paper. The transparent system is called WDRM （watermark-based digital rights management） and transparent to users. Its core is WDRM Agent. In this paper, system inner model and procession are designed in detail at first, including the registration, the downloading, the super distribution, and the cooperation. Because the watermark embedding and the extraction algorithms are the kernel in this architecture, we also discuss how to choose and design the algorithms. Then we establish a package for all algorithms in WDRM Agent.

A Novel Database Watermarking Technique Using Blockchain as Trusted Third Party

With widespread use of relational database in various real-life applications,maintaining integrity and providing copyright protection is gaining keen interest of the researchers.For this purpose,watermarking has been used for quite a long time.Watermarking requires the role of trusted third party and a mechanism to extract digital signatures(watermark)to prove the ownership of the data under dispute.This is often inefficient as lots of processing is required.Moreover,certain malicious attacks,like additive attacks,can give rise to a situation when more than one parties can claim the ownership of the same data by inserting and detecting their own set of watermarks from the same data.To solve this problem,we propose to use blockchain technology—as trusted third party—along with watermarking for providing a means of rights protection of relational databases.Using blockchain for writing the copyright information alongside watermarking helps to secure the watermark as changing the blockchain is very difficult.This way,we combined the resilience of our watermarking scheme and the strength of blockchain technology—for protecting the digital rights information from alteration—to design and implement a robust scheme for digital right protection of relational databases.Moreover,we also discuss how the proposed scheme can also be used for version control.The proposed technique works with nonnumeric features of relational database and does not target only selected tuple or portion(subset)from the database for watermark embedding unlike most of the existing techniques;as a result,the chances of subset selection containing no watermark decrease automatically.The proposed technique employs zerowatermarking approach and hence no intentional error(watermark)is added to the original dataset.The results of the experiments proved the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

A New Watermarking Protocol against Conspiracy

A trusted third party introduced in watermarking protocols would decrease the security and affect the implementation of the protocols. In this paper, a new watermarking protocol with an un-trusted third party （UTTP） was proposed. Based on the idea of all-or-nothing disclosure of secret （ANDOS）, all of the buyer, the seller and the third party didn＇t know the exact watermark, which was embedded in a digital content for tracing piracy. The proposed protocol provided mechanisms to trace piracy and protect customer＇s right. In addition, the problem that a seller colluded with UTTP to frame the buyer, namely, the conspiracy problem, could be avoided.

IEC61850 standard-based harmonic blocking scheme for power transformers

Transformer Differential and overcurrent schemes are traditionally used as main and backup protection respectively. The differential protection relay (SEL487E) has dedicated harmonic restraint function which blocks the relay tripping during the transformer magnetizing inrush conditions. However, the backup overcurrent relay (SEL751A) applied to the transformer protection does not have harmonic restraint element and trip the overcurrent relay during the inrush conditions. Therefore, major contribution of this research work is the developed harmonic blocking scheme for transformer which uses element (87HB) of the transformer differential relay (SEL487E) to send an IEC61850 GOOSE-based harmonic blocking signal to the backup overcurrent relay (SEL751A) to inhibit from tripping during the transformer magnetizing inrush current conditions. The simulation results proved that IEC61850 standard-based protection scheme is faster than the hardwired signals. Therefore, the speed and reliability of the transformer scheme are improved using the IEC61850 standard-based GOOSE applications.