Multimedia Content Encryption - Techniques and Applications

This book presents the latest research on multimedia content encryption. It begins with a brief history and then proceeds to examine performance requirements and fundamental encrypting techniques. It discusses the most common techniques of complete, partial, and compression-combined encryption; as well as the more specialized forms, including perception, scalable, and commutative encryption. In addition, it reviews watermarking and joint fingerprint embedding and decryption. Later chapters discuss typical attacks on multimedia encryption, as well as the principles for designing secure algorithms and various applications. Finally, open issues, up-and-coming topics, and areas for further research are explored.