A Video Streaming Encryption Method and Experimental System Based on Reconfigurable Quaternary Logic Operators

Multiple-valued logics (MVL) have abundant operation functions which can be used for encryption. A reconfigurable MVL operator can perform all MVL functions with a universal circuit structure at fast operation speed, based on which a one-time-pad cryptosystem is expected to be built. However, we find that when the existing MVL encryption method is applied to video data encryption, the color edges in the plaintext image will remain in the ciphertext image, resulting in partial leakage of information. To solve this problem, we propose byte reorganization and random mask strategies, forming an improved MVL encryption method for video streaming. For verifying the effectiveness of the method, we implement an FPGA-based experimental system to encrypt and decrypt real-time video streaming data. In this system, 16-quit reconfigurable quaternary logic operators are implemented to encrypt, decrypt and derive keys. The process of either encryption or decryption only takes 34 clock cycles. The encryption and decryption modules are capable of processing streaming data at a speed of 6.21 Gbit/s, showing that the system has real-time processing capability. For proving that our method is secure, we compare our improved MVL encryption method with existing image encryption methods in terms of common security evaluation metrics. Experimental results show that our method solves the problem of remained color edge and the ciphertext exhibits good statistical properties.