Development of secure encoder-decoder for JPEG images

Digital image copyrights and image authentication draw a great attention specially in critical image communications. This paper presents a proposal for a new encoder-decoder, which we call SecEncoDeco, for securing JPEG images. An extra stage of security is embedded in the traditional JPEG codec. This security stage uses the Secure Hill cipher technique. This encryption technique has many advantages over the traditional Hill cipher. The Safe Time of the Secure Hill cipher is deduced and presented in detail. Implementation of the proposed method is built based on MATLAB. Complete evaluation for the proposed codec is performed which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed secure codec for image copyright protection.