Academic literature on the topic 'Encryption techniques'

Protecting video streams while incurring minimal impact on the compression performance is very important for practical video distribution. Selective encryption is one of the most promising techniques that can offer the required security while maintaining format compliance after encryption with no or little impact on the compression performance. Also, selective encryption techniques can be employed in video surveillance systems to alleviate concerns over privacy invasion by applying the encryption to specific regions of interest. This thesis presents advanced selective encryption techniques for a range of video applications and new methods to effectively and efficiently protect privacy 111 video surveillance systems by applying selective encryption. Background knowledge on video encryption is introduced and previous work is reviewed. Two improved video encryption methods are first demonstrated: one randomly selects one of two equivalent zig-zag scan orders for video preview applications; the other is based on encrypting the sign bits of motion vectors to enhance the scrambling effect. Then, two recently proposed fast selective encryption methods for H.264/AVC are analyzed to show that they are not as efficient as only encrypting the sign bits of nonzero coefficients. A tunable selective encryption scheme for H.264/AVC is developed to provide a tunable scrambling effect by simply adjusting three parameters, so that for different scenarios the user can easily adjust the scrambling effect according to specific requirements. Finally, to more effectively protect privacy in video surveillance systems, it is proposed to el1crypt intra prediction modes within regions of interest in addition to encrypting sign bits of nonzero coefficients, as only encrypting sign bits produces a relatively weak scrambling effect. A re-encoding method is presented to remove the drift error in the non-privacy region caused by the encryption. A spiral binary mask mechanism is also proposed to more efficiently signal the position of the privacy region.

La sécurité est un problème important dans la transmission et le stockage de l'image, tandis que le cryptage est un moyen d'assurer la sécurité qui est requise dans de nombreuses applications (télévision par câble, la communication d'images militaires, systèmes d'imagerie confidentielle, etc.). Toutefois, à l'instar du message texte, les données images présentent des caractéristiques spéciales telles que la haute capacité, la redondance et la haute corrélation entre les pixels, et nécessite souvent une transmission et des traitements temps réel pour certaines applications. Construire un système rapide et efficace de cryptographie d'images suscite un intérêt considérable. C'est dans ce contexte qu’ont été menés ces travaux thèse qui portent sur l’élaboration d’un corrélateur optique en termes de cryptage/décryptage des données pour son implémentation dans un montage optique innovant. L’objectif de ces travaux est de réaliser un système optique de chiffrement sur la base d'exploitation de transformation optique et de générateurs chaotiques. L'idée originale des travaux consiste à exploiter la non-linéarité des systèmes chaotiques comme clés de chiffrement pour les systèmes optiques de chiffrement d'images multispectrales. Dans ces travaux de thèse, nous avons proposés et évalués plusieurs chiffrements d'images à base d’un système hyperchaotique et de transformées optiques (gyrator, Fourier, Baker , Arnold et Gerchberg- Saxton) à partir d’un processus de cryptage reposant sur une décomposition composants RVB et un encodage dans un flux dimensionnel d’images couleurs. L'originalité des solutions de chiffrement adoptée reposent sur l'exploitation de signaux réellement aléatoires à travers la mise en œuvre de générateurs hyperchaotiques pour la génération de données aléatoires sous forme images comme base de matrices de clés de chiffrement. En effet, ces générateurs présentent des propriétés et des caractéristiques fondamentales en termes de cryptage car il présente une non-linéarité, une imprédictibilité et une extrême sensibilité aux conditions initiales les rendant très intéressantes pour le développement de clés de chiffrement par flot. L’algorithme mis en œuvre permet d'extraire en temps réel les caractéristiques de texture dans les différentes bandes spectrales d'images en vue d’évaluer et de détecter les teneurs potentielles en information et dont les transmissions doivent être sécurisée via une transmission optique<br>Optical information security is one of the most important research directions in information science and technology, especially in the field of copyright protection, confidential information transmission/storage and military remote sensing. Since double random phase encoding technology (DRPE) was proposed, optical image encryption technology has become the main topic of optical information security and it has been developed and studied deeply. Optical encryption techniques offer the possibility of high-speed parallel processing of two dimension image data and hiding information in many different dimensions. In this context, much significant research and investigation on optical image encryption have been presented based on DRPE or further optical operation, such as digital holography, Fresnel transform, gyrator transform. Simultaneously, the encrypted image has been extended from single gray image to double image, color image and multi-image. However, the hyperspectral image, as a significant element in military and commercial remote sensing, has not been deeply researched in optical encryption area until now. This work extends the optical encryption technology from color image to hyperspectral image. For better comprehension of hyperspectral image encryption, this work begins with the introduction and analysis of the characteristics of hyperspectral cube. Subsequently, several kinds of encryption schemes for color image, including symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystem, are presented individually. Furthermore, the optical encryption algorithms for hyperspectral cube are designed for securing both the spatial and spectral information simultaneously. Some numerical simulations are given to validate the performance of the proposed encryption schemes. The corresponding attack experiment results demonstrate the capability and robustness of the approaches designed in this work. The research in this dissertation provides reference for the further practicality of hyperspectral image encryption

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-178). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

The rapid development of data transfer through internet made it easier to send the data accurate and faster to the destination. There are many transmission media to transfer the data to destination like e-mails; at the same time it is may be easier to modify and misuse the valuable information through hacking. So, in order to transfer the data securely to the destination without any modifications, there are many approaches like cryptography and steganography. This paper deals with the image steganography as well as with the different security issues, general overview of cryptography, steganography and digital watermarking approaches.  The problem of copyright violation of multimedia data has increased due to the enormous growth of computer networks that provides fast and error free transmission of any unauthorized duplicate and possibly manipulated copy of multimedia information. In order to be effective for copyright protection, digital watermark must be robust which are difficult to remove from the object in which they are embedded despite a variety of possible attacks. The message to be send safe and secure, we use watermarking. We use invisible watermarking to embed the message using LSB (Least Significant Bit) steganographic technique. The standard LSB technique embed the message in every pixel, but my contribution for this proposed watermarking, works with the hint for embedding the message only on the image edges alone. If the hacker knows that the system uses LSB technique also, it cannot decrypt correct message. To make my system robust and secure, we added cryptography algorithm as Vigenere square. Whereas the message is transmitted in cipher text and its added advantage to the proposed system. The standard Vigenere square algorithm works with either lower case or upper case. The proposed cryptography algorithm is Vigenere square with extension of numbers also. We can keep the crypto key with combination of characters and numbers. So by using these modifications and updating in this existing algorithm and combination of cryptography and steganography method we develop a secure and strong watermarking method. Performance of this watermarking scheme has been analyzed by evaluating the robustness of the algorithm with PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) and MSE (Mean Square Error) against the quality of the image for large amount of data. While coming to see results of the proposed encryption, higher value of 89dB of PSNR with small value of MSE is 0.0017. Then it seems the proposed watermarking system is secure and robust for hiding secure information in any digital system, because this system collect the properties of both steganography and cryptography sciences.

Electronic commerce and the internet provide greater opportunities for companies and individual person to be involved in commercial activities; the involved parties may not know or trust each other or may even be mutually suspicious of each other. The issue of fairness becomes more critical and must be well addressed. The aim of this thesis is to investigate security solutions with fairness for on-line transactions. A fair trading protocol with credit payment is proposed. The proof of equivalence of discrete logarithm to discrete loglogarithm is employed as the main tool to construct the protocol. The scheme provides a unique link between payment and gambling outcome so that the winner can be ensured to get the payment. Since an optimal fair exchange method is used in gambling message exchange, the proposed system guarantees that no one can successfully cheat during a gambling process. Our system requires an off-line Trusted Third Party (TTP). If cheating occurs, the TTP can resolve the problem and make the gambling process fair. An efficient and secure poker scheme is proposed. It is based on multiple encryption and decryption of individual cards. The protocol satisfies all major security requirements of a real mental poker. It gets rid of the Card Salesman and guarantees minimal effect due to collusion. The protocol is secure and more efficient compared with other known protocols. The strategies of players can be kept confidential with the introduction of a Dealer. The protocol is suitable to be implemented in an on-line gambling card game. The implementation of the fair on-line gambling protocol has been demonstrated and all utility classes for the implementation have been defined.<br>Master of Science (Hons)