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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2006.17.3.231

Hierarchical Image Encryption System Using Orthogonal Method  

Kim, Nam-Jin (School of Information & Communication, Kyungpook National University)
Seo, Dong-Hoan (Division of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Korea Maritime Univerity)
Lee, Sung-Geun (Division of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Korea Maritime Univerity)
Shin, Chang-Mok (School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Cho, Kyu-Bo (School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Soo-Joong (School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.17, no.3, 2006 , pp. 231-239 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent years, a hierarchical security architecture has been widely studied because it can efficiently protect information by allowing an authorized user access to the level of information. However, the conventional hierarchical decryption methods require several decryption keys for the high level information. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical image encryption using random phase masks and Walsh code having orthogonal characteristics. To decrypt the hierarchical level images by only one decryption key, we combine Walsh code into the hierarchical level system. For encryption process, we first perform a Fourier transform for the multiplication results of the original image and the random phase mask, and then expand the transformed pattern to be the same size and shape of Walsh code. The expanded pattern is finally encrypted by multiplying with the Walsh code image and the binary phase mask. We generate several encryption images as the same encryption process. The reconstruction image is detected on a CCD plane by a despread process and Fourier transform for the multiplication result of encryption image and hierarchical decryption keys which are generated by Walsh code and binary random phase image. Computer simulations demonstrate that the proposed technique can decrypt hierarchical information by using only one level decryption key image and it has a good robustness to the data loss such as random cropping.
Keywords
Hierarchical encryption; Walsh coding; Random Phase encoding;
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