sd-eng1

Usage

Overview

snowdrop is a steganographic text watermarking and watermark recovery system. It is composed of three programs:

sd-eng

Watermark normal English text.

sd-engf

Watermark fine quality English text, yielding higher quality output but encoding less information.

sd-c

Watermark C code.

The three programs operate similarly, with the same parameters and usage. The watermark is encoded in using a number of techniques, such as whitespace reformatting, typo insertation, word substitutions, punctuation changes, and for C code, logic reordering, variable name mangling, etc.

The watermark is a md5sum, which is retrievable from as little as 5 or 10 lines of the watermarked document. Even large changes to a medium sized document should not obscure the watermark, as it is stored redundantly in multiple independent channels.

The three usage modes are adding a watermark, checking for the presence of a watermark, and listing the contents of your database of watermarks. Note that to later check a watermark, you must retain a copy of the original, un-watermarked file.

Options

-i

Inject a watermark into a file. You must pass it the original file, the filename to output the watermarked version to, information about who you intend the watermarked file for, and an optional comment.

-e

Extract a watermark from a file. Needs the original file and the new file that you suspect bears the watermark.

-l

Lists the contents of the watermark database. Each of the three programs will have a different list.

-6

Enable 64 bit watermarking. The default is a weak 32 bit watermark.

Environment

SD_SYNONYMS

This variable can be used to point snowdrop at a customized synonyms file.

Files

~/.snowdrop/database

Database of watermarked files.