A new video encryption scheme for H.264/AVC

Yibo Fan*, Jidong Wang, Takeshi Ikenaga, Yukiyasu Tsunoo, Satoshi Goto

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Abstract

With the increase of video applications, the security of video data becomes more and more important. In this paper, we propose a new video encryption scheme for H.264/AVC video coding standard. We define Unequal Secure Encryption (USE) as an approach that applies different cryptographic algorithms (with different security strength) to different partitions of video data. The USE scheme includes two parts: video data classification and unequal secure video data encryption. For data classification, we propose 3 data classification methods and define 5 security levels in our scheme. For encryption, we propose a new stream cipher algorithm FLEX and XOR method to reduce computational cost. In this way, our scheme can achieve both high security and low computational cost. The experimental results show that the computational cost of the USE scheme is very low. In security level 0, the computational cost is about 18% of naive encryption. The USE scheme is very suitable for high security and low cost video encryption systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2007 - 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages246-255
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783540772545
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event8th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2007 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 2007 Dec 112007 Dec 14

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4810 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2007
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period07/12/1107/12/14

Keywords

  • Encryption
  • H.264/AVC
  • Video

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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