Fast colored video encryption using block scrambling and multi-key generation

Abstract

Multimedia information usage is increasing with new technologies such as the Internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and big data processing. Video is one of the most widely used types of multimedia. Videos are played and transmitted over different networks in many IoT applications. Consequently, securing videos during transmission over various networks is necessary to prevent unauthorized access to the video's content. The existing securing schemes have limitations in terms of high resource consumption and high processing time, which are not liable to IoT devices with limited resources in terms of processor size, memory, time, and power consumption. This paper proposed a new encryption scheme for securing the colored videos. The video frames are extracted, and then, the frame components (red, green, and blue) are separated and padded by zero. Then, every frame component (channel) is split into blocks of different sizes. Then, the scrambled blocks of a component are obtained by applying a zigzag scan, rotating the blocks, and randomly changing the blocks' arrangements. Finally, a secret key produced from a chaotic logistic map is used to encrypt the scrambled frame component. Security analysis and time complexity are used to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed scheme in encrypting the colored videos. The results reveal that the proposed scheme has high-level security and encryption efficiency. Finally, a comparison between the proposed scheme and existing schemes is performed. The results confirmed that the proposed scheme has additional encryption efficiency.