The study of selective encryption of motion vector based on the S-Box for the security improvement in the process of video

Abstract

The Selective Encryption method encrypts the important and requisite parts of data. Since the method does not encrypt the whole of data, the amount of computation is small,which makes it faster and the resources can be used efficiently. The existing selective algorithms have vulnerabilities to the plain text attack and the image restoration attack using the motion vector. They are also vulnerable to the attack in storing and transmitting of the random table data using in encrypt and scramble. In this paper, we propose the selective encryption algorithm of motion vector based on S-Box to remove the vulnerabilities of the existing selective algorithms. The motion vectors generated by the end of motion estimation function of video encoding/decoding xored with S-Box table, are replaced to certain location by using mapping table. The S-Box and mapping table are generated by the secret key through the Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) encryption algorithm. The proposed algorithm enhances the resistance against attacks through the reinforcement of video security, and thus, reduces the vulnerabilities of the existing algorithms such as I-Frame selective encryption and MVEA. Even though the level of security of the proposed algorithm is higher than the bit scrambling algorithms, it has much better security and higher processing rate than others selective algorithms.