A New Algorithm for MPEG Video

Continuous digital media such as video and audio are processed and communicated within networked infrastructures. The security of these media has become very important. If the encryption process is part of the video retrieval and playback process, then encryption and decryption must be performed in real time and the speed of the encryption/decryption algorithm matters. We show in this paper that the very diierent statistical behavior of compressed video media , in comparison to text, leads to a real-time, secure, and eecient encryption algorithm, which we call the Video Encryption Algorithm (VEA).