The Traceability Enforcement of Datatransfers (TREND) project aims to address some of the current challenges in implementing data sovereignty solutions on a broader scale. The objective is to use state-of-the-art digital watermarking techniques to embed metadata securely in the data being exchanged, along with dedicated protocol-level checks for validation and enforcement. This enables system-independent sovereignty checks to secure the data assets of the data owner without privacy sacrifices.
Note
There is a pending German patent application with the application number 10 2023 125 012.4. In
order to use the TREND watermarker Software in the form published here, a patent license is
required in addition to the license for the Software. See LICENSE for more information. In
case of any questions or uncertainties, please contact us at trend@isst.fraunhofer.de.
This project uses a monolithic repository approach and
consists of different parts, located in different subfolders. The hearth is a watermarker
library, located in the watermarker folder, used by other components like a CLI
tool or a webinterface shipped with this repo. Every part has its own README file to get further
information.
Subfolder overview:
- cli: A command line tool to enable watermarking directly via a shell
- samples: Different examples of watermarked and non-watermarked files
- watermarker: The main part of the repository, consisting of a watermarker library to be able to watermark (for example) text files
- webinterface: A frontend / GUI to use the watermarking inside a browser
Detailed getting started guides are described for every component in their dedicated README
file, located in the corresponding subfolders. In the following, an easy start of the webinterface
with the watermarker library is described.
The following things are needed to run this application:
- docker & docker-compose
To run the webinterface, just clone the repo locally and run the docker-compose.yml file in the
root directory of the project:
$ git clone https://github.com/FraunhoferISST/TREND.git
$ cd TREND
$ docker-compose up
After the startup finished, try to visit the webinterface at http://localhost:8080
Contributions to this project are greatly appreciated! Every contribution needs to accept the
Corporate Contributor License Agreement, located in the CLA.md file. For more details, see the
CONTRIBUTING.md file.
This work is licensed under the Fraunhofer License (on the basis of the MIT license). See
LICENSE file for more information.
The initial project version was created within the scope of the Center of Excellence Logistics and It.
- Malte Hellmeier (Fraunhofer ISST)
- Haydar Qarawlus (Fraunhofer ISST)
- Hendrik Norkowski (Fraunhofer ISST)
- Ernst-Christoph Schrewe (Fraunhofer ISST)