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H.264/AVC video encryption algorithm based on integer dynamic cross-coupling tent mapping model

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With rapid Internet development and multimedia technologies, video applications are gradually becoming essential to people's lives. However, the data security problems that follow are becoming increasingly prominent. For the problem of excessive video encoding time after encryption of a high-dimensional chaos encryption algorithm, this paper uses chaotic pseudo-random sequences generated by the integer dynamic cross-coupling tent mapping model as the keystream. It then selectively encrypts them with some key syntax elements in video encoding. Several experimental tests were conducted to analyze the proposed algorithm's effectiveness and security, including information entropy, key space analysis, edge detection analysis, and alternative attack analysis. The experimental results show that the entropy value of the test frames is greater than 7.99, and the key space of the proposed algorithm is 2992. In addition, the encryption algorithm has a low computational cost and the overall encoding time and encryption time consumption of the test video increase by 1.171% on average. The bit stream length increases to 0 after video encryption, which does not affect the video compression ratio. Moreover, the algorithm can resist edge detection attacks and substitution attacks. The algorithm has high timeliness and resistance to attack in terms of real-time and reliability of video encryption transmission.

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Jin, W., Jiandong, L. & Haoqiang, X. H.264/AVC video encryption algorithm based on integer dynamic cross-coupling tent mapping model. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 13369–13393 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15448-0

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