Joint security and performance enhancement for secure arithmetic coding
Jiantao Zhou, Oscar C. Au, Xiaopeng Fan, Peter H. W. Wong · 2008
This paper studies the joint security and performance enhancement of secure arithmetic coding (AC) for digital rights management applications. The proposed cryptosystem incorporates the interval splitting AC with a simple bit-wise XOR operation step. Security analysis results show that the proposed scheme provides satisfactory level of security against the cipher-only attack, the chosen-plaintext attack and the chosen-ciphertext attack. Due to the elimination of the input symbol-wise permutation step, our proposed scheme can be extended conveniently to any context-based coding scenarios. In addition, the implementation complexity of our proposed scheme is lower than the original secure AC. Finally, we suggest a selective encryption version of our proposed scheme, which further reduces the implementation complexity.