Abstract
In digital broadcast TV systems, video data is normally encrypted before transmission. For in-home redistribution, it is often necessary to transcode the bitstream to achieve optimum utilization of available bandwidth. If a signal is decrypted before transcoding and re-encrypted, this may lead to a security loophole. This paper presents a solution in the form of a novel H.264 selective encryption algorithm that encrypts sign bits of transform coefficients and motion vectors to allow secure transcoding without decryption. The performance of this system is compared with I-frame encryption. The results show that sign encryption is more secure than I-frame encryption and has a lower complexity. A hybrid system using a modified transcoder and sign encryption is found to give an optimal compromise between security and transcoding performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | IV-85 - IV-88 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2007 |
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Name of Conference: International Conference on Image Processing
Venue of Conference: San Antonio, USA
Keywords
- TV broadcasting
- video coding
- security
- cryptography