TitleAn Efficient Hardware Architecture for Multimedia Encryption and Authentication using the Discrete Wavelet Transform
Publication TypeConference Papers
2009
AuthorsPande, A., and J. Zambreno
Conference NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
Date PublishedMay

This paper introduces a zero-overhead encryption and authentication scheme for real-time embedded multimedia systems. The parameterized construction of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) compression block is used to introduce a free parameter in the design. It allows building a keyspace for lightweight multimedia encryption. The parameterization yields rational coefficients leading to an efficient fixed point hardware implementation. A clock speed of over 240 MHz was achieved on a Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA. Comparison with existing approaches was performed to indicate the high throughput and low hardware overhead in adding the security feature to the DWT architecture.

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