arXiv · cs/0610036
Optimization of Memory Usage in Tardos's Fingerprinting Codes
Abstract
It is known that Tardos's collusion-secure probabilistic fingerprinting code (Tardos code; STOC'03) has length of theoretically minimal order with respect to the number of colluding users. However, Tardos code uses certain continuous probability distribution in codeword generation, which creates some problems for practical use, in particular, it requires large extra memory. A solution proposed so far is to use some finite probability distributions instead. In this paper, we determine the optimal finite distribution in order to decrease extra memory amount. By our result, the extra memory is reduced to 1/32 of the original, or even becomes needless, in some practical setting. Moreover, the code length is also reduced, e.g. to about 20.6% of Tardos code asymptotically. Finally, we address some other practical issues such as approximation errors which are inevitable in any real implementation.
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Koji Nuida, Manabu Hagiwara, Hajime Watanabe, Hideki Imai. 2006-10-06. Optimization of Memory Usage in Tardos's Fingerprinting Codes. https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610036
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