The Empeg BBS's very own Dan S. Wallach was part of a nine-person research team that hacked the proposed SDMI watermarking scheme!

What's more, they had the integrity to publish their findings in an open research forum rather than sign an NDA under the terms of the "Hack SDMI" contest. This means that the SDMI consortium can not spin/censor their findings.

And, to deflect another potential subjective attack on their findings, they came up with an objective measurement of distortion that shows that removing the watermark does not introduce any more distortion than adding the watermark did in the first place!

The findings are written up here.

Sweet stuff, Dan! I work two blocks from the campus, so e-mail me at [email protected] if I can take you out for a Goode Company BBQ sandwich and a brewskie!

Corby
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