Abstract: A near field communication system can include a near field generator configured to generate a near field detectable information signal. The near field generator and supporting circuitry also produces incidental electromagnetic radiation. A masking signal transmitter is used with the near field generator and radiates a masking electromagnetic signal. The masking electromagnetic signal may substantially mask the incidental electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for detecting malware. More particularly, the system includes a monitoring device that monitors side-channel activity of a target device. The monitoring device that can work in conjunction with (or independently of) a cloud-based security analytics engine to perform anomaly detection and classification on the side-channel activity. For example, the monitoring device can calculate a first set of features that are then transmitted to the security analytics engine for anomaly detection and classification.

Abstract: A method embeds tracing secret data into multimedia contents delivered to particular users. The method descrambles a first scrambled video stream having alternate values to obtain a personalized video stream corresponding to an original video stream by a decoder comprising at least a security unit and a descrambling unit, the personalized video stream being obtained by restoring the alternate values by personalized values taking into account an internal parameter on the security unit and received control data containing the original values and their location in the modified stream.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a jammer comprising sampling an input signal; downconverting and sampling the input signal to generate a sampled downconverted (SD) input signal; comparing the sampled input signal to a wideband threshold THWB, and comparing the SD input signal to a narrowband threshold THNB; generating a wideband (WB) interrupt signal based on the comparison to the THWB, and generating a narrowband (NB) interrupt signal based on the comparison to the THNB; and generating a composite interrupt signal based on at least one of WB interrupt signal and NB interrupt signal. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises a wideband jammer detector for generating a WB interrupt signal to indicate a wideband jammer; a narrowband jammer detector for generating a NB interrupt signal to indicate a narrowband jammer; and interrupt logic for generating a composite interrupt signal based on one of WB interrupt signal and NB interrupt signal.

Abstract: Methods of processing audio to convey auxiliary information hidden therein are provided. Various arrangements are disclosed. One alters data representing audio to include a sequence of bits of auxiliary information. The altering is based on a carrier signal and corresponding to the sequence of bits, and is based on a perceptibility threshold that varies within the data representing audio. Other arrangements are provided as well.

Abstract: Secure communication of information is effected from a first party to a second party when the first party knows its own global location and the global location of the second party, and employs what essentially is an undiscoverable code signal that is broadcast to, and received by, both the first and the second parties. The first party securely communicates information to the second party by modifying the code signal with the information that is to be communicated and sends the modified code signal to the second party. Illustratively, the code signal is related to the Y component of a GPS signal.

Abstract: A data storage device includes a plurality of data storage units, a physical random number generator with a noise source based on a physical noise process, for generating a random number, and a replacer for selecting a data storage unit wherein data is to be stored, depending on the random number. Selecting, on the basis of genuine random numbers, data storage units and/or lines to be replaced in the cache.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to digital information utilizes a location identity attribute that defines a specific geographic location. The location identity attribute is associated with the digital information such that the digital information can be accessed only at the specific geographic location. The location identity attribute further includes a location value and a proximity value. The location value corresponds to a location of an intended recipient appliance of the digital information, and may be further defined in terms of latitude, longitude and altitude dimensions. The digital information is encrypted using a geolocking key based at least in part on the location identity attribute. The geolocking key is based on a shape parameter that is determined from the location identity attribute and is included with the encrypted digital information. The shape parameter describes a shape of a geographic area, but does not identify where the geographic area is located.

Abstract: An M6 block cipher system and method for encoding content and authenticating a device may use an M6 core. The M6 block cipher system may include a rotate constant selector selecting one or more rotate constants from a plurality of input rotate constants for output based on a selection signal input thereto, a rotate constant ordering device ordering the selected rotate constants and a common rotate constant input thereto based on a received ordering signal and an M6 core generating one or more of an output signal, a validity signal and a round number based on the ordered rotate constants and a plurality of input signals. The system may include a rotate constant scheduler outputting the ordering signal to the rotate constant ordering device in response to the selection signal and the round number.

Abstract: A contents border detection apparatus and monitoring method. The apparatus comprises a digital watermark detector for detecting a digital watermark embedded in contents for which a time element is provided; and a border detector for detecting border locations for the contents corresponding to the state of the digital watermark detected by the digital watermark detector. The border detector includes a first border specification device for specifying the border locations for the contents based on information, written in the digital watermark, that is detected by the digital watermark detector and includes a second border specification device for specifying the border locations for the contents based on bit patterns embedded as the digital watermark. The border locations for the contents are detected by using the process result obtained both by the first and the second border specification devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to searching content, particularly for at least one extract common to a first data file and a second data file.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that camouflages business-activity information in telemetry signals from a computer system. During operation, the system monitors telemetry signals from the computer system to obtain a time series containing a telemetry metric which provides business-activity information. Next, the system computes a serial correlation between data values in the time series. The system then determines if the computed serial correlation between the data values in the time series is above a predetermined threshold level. If so, the system performs frequency domain analysis on the time series. The system then generates artificial activity on the computer system which causes the frequency spectra of the time series to reduce the serial correlation between the data values in the time series.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that camouflages business-activity information in telemetry signals from a computer system. During operation, the system monitors telemetry signals from the computer system to obtain a time series containing a telemetry metric which provides business-activity information. Next, for each telemetry-metric value contained in the time series, the system compares the telemetry-metric value with a predetermined threshold level. If the telemetry-metric value is below the predetermined threshold level, the system then generates artificial activity associated with the telemetry metric in the computer system, so that the artificial activity causes the telemetry-metric value to exceed the predetermined threshold level.

Abstract: A system and method of video stream encryption. A storage device stores a first quantization scale and a second quantization scale. An encryption application receives video data, a first quantization scale and a second quantization scale, generating quantized data by dividing the video into the first quantization scale, generating supplementary data by subtracting the quantized data multiplied by the first quantization scale from the video data, generating quantized supplementary data by dividing the supplementary data into the second quantization scale, and generating encrypted quantized supplementary data using variable length encoding and symmetrical/asymmetrical encryption algorithm.

Abstract: An architecture for a high performance IPSEC accelerator. The architecture includes components for scanning fields of packets, programming an IPSEC services device according to the scanned fields, and modifying the scanned packet with an output from the IPSEC security services device. Preferably, the architecture is implemented in hardware, and attached to a host machine. Hardware devices, fast in comparison to software processing and network speeds, allows the computationally intensive IPSEC processes to be completed in real-time and reduce or eliminate bottlenecks in the path of a packet being sent or received to/from a network.

Abstract: A method for embedding a watermark into content is disclosed. The content contains content samples. The method including the steps of: receiving the content, creating a continuous watermark sequence from the watermark, and for each content sample in a first predetermined order: calculating a sample mean, calculating a sample variance, and normalizing the content. Further steps include generating a set of content coefficients from the content, generating a set of watermark coefficients from the watermark sequence, embedding the watermark in the content by adjusting the amplitude of the watermark coefficients so that the distortion between the content coefficients and the associated watermark coefficients are minimized using a secret mapping function, and outputting the content. The mapping functions may be controlled by a key-dependent random sequence to protect the watermarks.

Abstract: A digital measurement apparatus measures a physical measurement object, provides a digital signature of public-key cryptography to measured data of a thus-measured physical quantity, and manages the measured data. The apparatus generates at least a pair of a public key and a private key, to be used for the digital signature of the public-key cryptography, through a key generating algorithm.

Abstract: An identification code signal is hidden in a carrier signal (such as an electronic data signal or a physical medium) in a manner that permits the identification signal later to be discerned. The carrier signal can thereby be identified, or some machine responsive action can thereby be taken. The technique can be applied in video imagery embodiments to control associated video equipment, e.g. to serve as a copy control signal.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for embedding or embedding digital data into an analog host or cover signal. A distributed signal feature of the cover signal in a particular domain (time, frequency or space) is calculated and compared with a set of predefined quantization values corresponding to an information symbol to be encoded. The amount of change required to modify the signal feature to the determined target quantization value is calculated and the cover signal is modified accordingly to so change the feature value over a predefined interval. Information symbols are extracted by the opposite process.