Image Security

Abstract

Over the past decades, research in security has concentrated on the development of algorithms and protocols for encryption, authentication, and integrity of textual data or data with similar characteristics. Despite tremendous advances in security, specifically, the development of asymmetric cryptographic protocols and the inception of strong symmetric ciphers, plenty of security problems still afflict systems. For example, hackers exploiting weaknesses in other systems and the use of inadequate (too short) cipher keys produce frequent news headlines about broken security systems. Despite the news headlines, such problems have been well explored and even solved in principle, therefore they aren't the primary focus of this special theme issue. Rather the articles here cover the unsolved problems in image security, which relate fairly closely to computer graphics. The unsolved challenges arise from the increased availability and distribution of multimedia content over Internet services such as the World Wide Web and their implications for intellectual property protection and copyright issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA390840

Entities

People

  • Christoph Busch
  • Ioannis Pitas
  • Klara Nahrstedt

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Cryptography
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Images
  • Digital Media
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Mail
  • False Alarms
  • Image Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Security
  • Security Protocols
  • Signal Processing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design