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Digital Video Encryption Algorithms Based on Correlation-Preserving Permutations

  • Daniel Socek1Email author,
  • Spyros Magliveras2,
  • Dubravko Ćulibrk1,
  • Oge Marques1,
  • Hari Kalva1 and
  • Borko Furht1
EURASIP Journal on Information Security20072007:052965

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/52965

©  Daniel Socek et al. 2007

Received: 28 February 2007

Accepted: 19 June 2007

Published: 30 July 2007

Abstract

A novel encryption model for digital videos is presented. The model relies on the encryption-compression duality of certain types of permutations acting on video frames. In essence, the proposed encryption process preserves the spatial correlation and, as such, can be applied prior to the compression stage of a spatial-only video encoder. Several algorithmic modes of the proposed model targeted for different application requirements are presented and analyzed in terms of security and performance. Experimental results are generated for a number of standard benchmark sequences showing that the proposed method, in addition to providing confidentiality, preserves or improves the compression ratio.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
(2)
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University

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