A New Method for Encrypting Images with Few Details Using Rijndael and RC6 Block Ciphers in the Electronic Code Book Mode

摘要

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for encrypting images with few details using Rijndael and RC6 block ciphers in Electronic Code Book (ECB) mode. Images with few details are images with large areas of similar gray levels such as medical images, infrared images, and logo images. This leads to encryption leakage if the Rijndael or RC6 block ciphers are used. The proposed method solves this problem by using a preprocessing step to eliminate the repeated patterns before encryption. A comparison is held between encryption of images with few details with preprocessing and encryption without preprocessing. Experimental results verify that the proposed preprocessing method gives the encryption algorithms the ability to encrypt images with few details in an efficient manner in the ECB mode.