Thus it was written in the epistle of Wirt Atmar,
>
> Based on your comments, I read one of Digimarc's papers on their methodology:
>
>      http://www.digimarc.com/news/SPIE2000-8.PDF
>
> While their method is clever (upper level graduate school 2D signal
> processing techniques), I am now absolutely sure that I could recode an image
> to break any chance that the watermark signal could be recovered.

It appears you can spend your time on other things ;-) . . .

http://lists.ut.ee/arc/arvutid.turvalisus/199712/msg00063.html
http://www.stealthencrypt.com/watermk.html

Ted
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