WatermarkingAttack.md (525B)
1 # Watermarking Attack 2 3 **Source:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermarking_attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermarking_attack) 4 5 **Definition:** A watermarking attack is a disk encryption attack where the existence of a piece of data can be detected by an attacked without knowing the encryption key. 6 7 This is especially relevant for disk encryption tools where attacker controlled files may exist in the encrypted data, potentially leading to their existence being visible without the ability to decrypt the data.