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Key-Based Scrambling for Secure Image Communication

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Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications (ICIC 2012)

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Secure image communication is becoming increasingly important due to theft and manipulation of its content. Law enforcement agents may find it increasingly difficult to stay afloat above the ill intentions of hackers. We have been able to develop an image scrambling algorithm that is very simple to implement but almost impossible to breach with a probability less than 5x10− 300. This is possible due to the fact that a user may purchase or acquire rights for an intended image by specifying a ‘key’ that can form a sequence of numbers 10 to 100 in length. The content provider uses this sequence as a base in developing another key sequence to scramble the image and transmit it to the user through regular channels such as an email attachment. Since the user is the only party apart from the provider to possess the key for descrambling, any third party will not be able to descramble it successfully as will be shown in this paper.

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  1. School of Electrical Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Prashan Premaratne

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

    Malin Premaratne

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  1. Machine Learning and Systems Biology Laboratory, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    De-Shuang Huang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, India

    Phalguni Gupta

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, 2320 South Brook Street, 40292, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

    Xiang Zhang

  4. School of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering, The University of Wollongong,, 2522, North Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Prashan Premaratne

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Premaratne, P., Premaratne, M. (2012). Key-Based Scrambling for Secure Image Communication. In: Huang, DS., Gupta, P., Zhang, X., Premaratne, P. (eds) Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications. ICIC 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31837-5_38

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