This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2018, held on Jeju Island, Korea, in October 2018.The 25 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The contributions are covering the following topics: deep neural networks for digital forensics; steganalysis and identification; watermarking; reversible data hiding; steganographic algorithms; identification and security; deep generative models for forgery and its detection.