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Voice, Video and Graphics Encryption Developers Need to Build a Fool-Proof Solution to Convince Investors of its Viability
4 March 2006 While security applications are considered critical for the safe operation of all networks and internal and external commerce, some organisations still view them as a cost burden. This is so because the financial returns from voice, video and graphics encryption products are not apparent and clients are often reluctant to adopt such solutions.
Most often, cryptographers devise algorithms for dealing with a specified number of attacks. When the attacks increase and the hacker breaks the algorithm without using a key, users are bound to feel let down by their security systems.
Encryption solution developers will have to work hard to get users of traditional security methods to adopt new applications such as public key infrastructure (PKI). Participants need to initiate extensive educational efforts such as classroom training, seminars, press tours and publishing articles in journal and magazines.
Users can also be motivated to install novel security systems with the help of case studies and awareness drives about encryptions' advantages of greater efficiency, lower operating costs and increasing revenues through secure e-business models.
Along with the promotion of its efficiency, developers of encryption systems have to persuade customers about the product's cost-effectiveness.
"Currently, most implementers use formal standard encryption algorithms (AES, 3DES), which come for free but with a lower security offering," says Frost & Sullivan (http://ti.frost.com) Research Analyst Amreetha Vijayakumar. "The market needs to be able to discern the limitations of such solutions and those that are available with complete support, although at higher prices."
Security vendors also have to increasingly emphasise the importance of security in the wake of significant advances in technology. Recent developments, especially in the computer and communications industries, have opened up tremendous opportunities for distributing digital multimedia content through the Internet.
This proliferation of digital documents and multimedia processing tools as well as global Internet access has created a hotbed of fraudulent activities such as copyright violations and unmonitored distribution of multimedia content. It is now possible to download movies and music effortlessly from the Internet.
The losses in revenue due to piracy in the United States were pegged at $3 billion in 2004 and this is likely to be much higher in the global market. This daunting situation has created an urgent need for encryption systems that can control audio/video piracy and rein in unauthorised distribution.
Apart from threats from external sources, scientists will also have to be wary of restraints from advanced technologies such as quantum mechanics. Once encryption based on quantum mechanics becomes a reality, the processing speed of decoding is expected to escalate tremendously.
While the popular conception is that faster computers enable encryption with larger keys to make them more secure, the truth is that the use of quantum computers makes the system highly insecure. This is because the amount of power required to crack longer keys far exceeds the amount needed to operate encryption products with longer keys.
"While cryptography can be made stronger as computers become faster, storage systems become larger, and computer codes grow to fit these systems, the initial complexity that results from the added codes makes computer systems vulnerable," notes Ms. Vijayakumar.
The coupling of the brute force approach and the processing speed of quantum computing make systems less secure. Technology developers will have to find innovative and high-level solutions, perhaps from quantum cryptography itself, to counter this challenge and drive acceptance of encryption technologies.
For instance, the Toshiba Research Centre at Cambridge, United Kingdom, has used quantum physics for voice and video encryption to transmit data securely over fibre link. Toshiba has invented the quantum key server, which generates up to 100 256-bit keys per second, enabling encryption of every video frame with a unique key.
The security will be more expensive and sophisticated for threats - such as leaks of military secrets - that have the potential to cause grievous damage.
"To circumvent the problems related to interception and wiretapping, German-based Gesellschaft fur Sichere Mobile Kommunikation (GSMK mbH) has developed the cryptophone, which is a satellite or a cellular phone that prevents any intrusion," explains Ms. Vijayakumar. "The cryptophone ensures that the voice from the microphone is first digitised, compressed and forwarded for the encryption process, while the codec multiplexer compresses the voice."
The popularity of video-on-demand and video conferencing applications has given a forceful push to multimedia data security in both traditional and electronic commerce. Service providers have to ensure that they have authentication control mechanisms such as encryptions in place to regulate the access of distributed multimedia data.
If you are interested in an analysis providing manufacturers, end users and other industry participants with an overview, summary, challenges and latest coverage of Voice; Video; and Graphics Encryption, send an e-mail to Janina Hillgrub, European Corporate Communications, at Janina.Hillgrub@frost.com. Please include the following information: your full name, company name, title, contact telephone number, contact fax number and e-mail address. Upon receipt of the above information, an overview will be sent to you by e-mail.
Title: Voice; Video; and Graphics Encryption
Code: D396
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Keywords in this release: voice, video, graphics, encryption, digital multimedia content, multimedia processing tools, quantum mechanics, cryptography, public key infrastructure, PKI, AES, 3DES, quantum key serve, cryptophone, codec multiplexer
Key Industry Participants: AGS Encryption, BBN Technologies, Crypto AG, Digimarc, Entrust Technologies, Gesellschaft fur Sichere Mobile Kommunikation mbH, Markany, Inc., Mediacrypt, Mediasec Technologies, Microsoft Research, Navastream, Nextamp, Ovation Systems, Polycom, RSA Security, Inc., Snapshield, Thales E-security, Inc., Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., USA Video Interactive Corp.
Dalian University of Technology, Nanjing Institute of Science and Technology, Takushoku University, Universite de Liege, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of Toronto
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