Composite cellular automata based encryption method applied to surveillance videos

Abstract

This work is part of the research project “Encryption Models Based on Chaotic Attractors” institutionalized in the Research and Scientific Development Center of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. In this paper, a symmetric encryption method for surveillance videos is presented, based on reversible composite cellular automata developed for this purpose. This method takes advantage of reversible cellular automata and elementary rule 30 properties, for efficient regions of interest encryption in surveillance video frames, obtaining an algorithm which experimental results of security and performance are consistent with those reported in current literature. In addition, it allows decryption without loss of information through a fixed size key for each video frame.

Keywords

• cryptosystem
• reversible composite cellular automata
• video encryption
• region of interest encryption