3. Plaintext
Decryption
Ciphertext
Cryptography
⚫ Means secret writing
⚫ To protect our data against unauthorized access
⚫ Encrypt data into an illegible format that only the intended
recipients can decrypt and read
Readable Unreadable Readable
⚫ Privacy, trust, access control and authentication
⚫ Remote access, certificate based authentication, online
orders and payments, email, messaging
Encryption
Plaintext
4. Digital Images
⚫ Arrangement of pixels
⚫ Information intelligible due to the correlation of pixels
⚫ Binary, Gray, Colour
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5. Need
⚫ Growth in the arena of multimedia technology
⚫ Digital image has become an important medium of
communication
⚫ Over dissemination and use
7. Why Not?
⚫ Traditional text cryptosystems to encrypt images
⚫ Image characteristics
⚫ Bulk data capacity
⚫ High data redundancy
⚫ Correlation among adjacent pixels
⚫ Uncorrelate the adjacent pixels
8. Effectiveness of Protection
⚫ Kerckhoffs’s doctrine
“A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about
the system, except the key, is public knowledge”
⚫ Encryption algorithm
⚫ Quality of key
15. Conclusion
⚫ Image cryptography plays an important role in digital image
transmission
⚫ Each cryptosystem is unique in its own way
⚫ Everyday new techniques are evolving
⚫ Extensive research is still a dynamic process in this field