ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTUAL HASHING FOR WARHEAD VERIFICATION

Year
2014
Author(s)
Sean Robinson - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Paul Bruillard - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kenneth D. Jarman - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Abstract
The effort to inspect and verify warheads in the context of possible future arms control treaties is rife with security and implementation issues. In this paper we review prior work on perceptual image hashing for template-based warhead veri?- cation. Furthermore, we formalize the notion of perceptual hashes and demonstrate that large classes of such functions are likely not cryptographically secure. We close with a brief discussion of fully homomorphic encryption as an alternative technique.