International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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Volume 4, Issue 10  (October 2017), Pages:  84-96

Review Paper

Title: Overview of securing multimedia content using efficient encryption methods and modes

Author(s): K. John Singh *, Kunal Gagneja

Affiliation(s):

School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.010.013

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Abstract:

Multimedia comprises of audio, text, image and video. Use of multimedia is increasing because of improvements in hardware, algorithms and networking. Confidentiality of data is the primary concern due to applications in commerce, telemedicine, Internet television, video telephony, multiparty P2P conferences, video on demand and military. Multimedia files are data intensive thus, they need more computational power and consume more memory as compared to ordinary text data. Comparative analysis of vulnerabilities and counter measures are made. In this paper, possibilities of securing multimedia data using various encryption methods and modes are analyzed and compared on the basis of their execution speed, hardware implementation and various attacks. It is found that public key cryptosystems are comparatively slow and they get more vulnerability. Comparative analysis shows that confusion and diffusion are used in many faster cryptosystems to measure the security level. Moreover, hardware implementation (ASIC and FPGA) provides better security than software implementations. ASIC and FPGA implementations had high variation in throughput irrespective of the cryptosystem. 

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Partial encryption, Scalable encryption, Perceptual encryption, Compression combined encryption, Video scrambling, Hardware

Article History: Received 27 May 2017, Received in revised form 17 August 2017, Accepted 25 August 2017

Digital Object Identifier: 

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.010.013

Citation:

Singh KJ and Gagneja K (2017). Overview of securing multimedia content using efficient encryption methods and modes. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(10): 84-96

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