Patent ID: 8074074

Claim:
A distribution and playback device comprising: the distribution device including: a predetermined plurality of different scrambling methods; means for scrambling compressed data to produce scrambled compressed data by use of a selected one of the plurality of scrambling methods; means for extracting data (D) in a position where digital watermark is embedded from the scrambled compressed data; means for calculating a hash value based on a non-embedding position scrambled compressed data which do not include the data (D); means for encrypting the hash value with a secret key assigned to the selected one of the plurality of scrambling methods; and means for embedding the encrypted hash value at a watermark data embedding position in the scrambled compressed data; the playback device including: means for receiving the scrambled compressed data from the distribution device; means for extracting the digital watermark from the received scrambled compressed data; means for calculating a hash value based on a non-embedding position received scrambled compressed data which do not included the digital watermark; means for decrypting the encrypted hash value by use of all public keys assigned to the plurality of scrambling methods; means for determining a descrambling method by a coincident of the calculated hash value with the decrypted hash value; and means for descrambling the received scrambled compressed data with the descrambling method.