Publication type: Conference paper
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: SealClub : computer-aided paper document authentication
Authors: Ochoa Ronderos, Martin
Vanegas, Hernán
Toro-Pozo, Jorge
Basin, David
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1145/3627106.3627176
Proceedings: ACSAC '23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Page(s): 163
Pages to: 177
Conference details: 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’23), Austin, TX, USA, 4–8 December 2023
Issue Date: Dec-2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution: ACM
Publisher / Ed. Institution: New York, NY
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0886-2
Language: English
Subjects: Document authentication; Forgery detection; Security; Application
Subject (DDC): 005: Computer programming, programs and data
Abstract: Paper documents, where digital signatures are not directly applicable, are still widely utilized due to usability and legal reasons. We propose a novel approach to authenticating paper documents by taking short videos of them with smartphones. Our solution combines cryptographic and image comparison techniques to detect and highlight semantic-changing attacks on rich documents, containing text and graphics. We provide geometrical arguments for the security of our novel comparison algorithm, and prove that its combination with a cryptographic protocol is secure against strong adversaries capable of compromising different system components. We also measure its accuracy on a set of 128 videos of paper documents and a set of 960 synthetically generated warped documents, half containing subtle forgeries. Our algorithm finds all forgeries accurately with no false positives. The highlighted regions are large enough to be visible to users, but small enough to precisely locate forgeries.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29483
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisational Unit: Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
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Ochoa Ronderos, M., Vanegas, H., Toro-Pozo, J., & Basin, D. (2023). SealClub : computer-aided paper document authentication [Conference paper]. ACSAC ’23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 163–177. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627106.3627176
Ochoa Ronderos, M. et al. (2023) ‘SealClub : computer-aided paper document authentication’, in ACSAC ’23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. New York, NY: ACM, pp. 163–177. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3627106.3627176.
M. Ochoa Ronderos, H. Vanegas, J. Toro-Pozo, and D. Basin, “SealClub : computer-aided paper document authentication,” in ACSAC ’23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Dec. 2023, pp. 163–177. doi: 10.1145/3627106.3627176.
OCHOA RONDEROS, Martin, Hernán VANEGAS, Jorge TORO-POZO und David BASIN, 2023. SealClub : computer-aided paper document authentication. In: ACSAC ’23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Conference paper. New York, NY: ACM. Dezember 2023. S. 163–177. ISBN 979-8-4007-0886-2
Ochoa Ronderos, Martin, Hernán Vanegas, Jorge Toro-Pozo, and David Basin. 2023. “SealClub : Computer-Aided Paper Document Authentication.” Conference paper. In ACSAC ’23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 163–77. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627106.3627176.
Ochoa Ronderos, Martin, et al. “SealClub : Computer-Aided Paper Document Authentication.” ACSAC ’23: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACM, 2023, pp. 163–77, https://doi.org/10.1145/3627106.3627176.


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