Encryption efficiency analysis and security evaluation of RC6 block cipher for digital images

2007 International Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ahmed, H E H ^a   Kalash, H M ^a   Farag Allah, O S ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Block cipher; Encryption quality; Image encryption; Security analysis

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BLOCK CIPHER; BLOCK CIPHERS; ENCRYPTION QUALITY; IMAGE ENCRYPTION; SECURITY ANALYSIS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 51749116030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEE.2007.4287293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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