Embedding Digital Signature into CSV Files Using Data Hiding

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contents Open data is an important basis for open science and evidence-based policymaking. Governments of many countries disclose government-related statistics as open data. Some of these data are provided as CSV files. However, since CSV files are plain texts, we cannot ensure the integrity of a downloaded CSV file. A popular way to prove the data's integrity is a digital signature; however, it is difficult to embed a signature into a CSV file. This paper proposes a method for embedding a digital signature into a CSV file using a data hiding technique. The proposed method exploits a redundancy of the CSV format related to the use of double quotes. The experiment revealed we could embed a 512-bit signature into actual open data CSV files.
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spellingShingle Embedding Digital Signature into CSV Files Using Data Hiding
Ito, Akinori
Cryptography and Security
Multimedia
Open data is an important basis for open science and evidence-based policymaking. Governments of many countries disclose government-related statistics as open data. Some of these data are provided as CSV files. However, since CSV files are plain texts, we cannot ensure the integrity of a downloaded CSV file. A popular way to prove the data's integrity is a digital signature; however, it is difficult to embed a signature into a CSV file. This paper proposes a method for embedding a digital signature into a CSV file using a data hiding technique. The proposed method exploits a redundancy of the CSV format related to the use of double quotes. The experiment revealed we could embed a 512-bit signature into actual open data CSV files.
title Embedding Digital Signature into CSV Files Using Data Hiding
topic Cryptography and Security
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04959