Secure Video Streaming

Abstract

The use of technology in everyday life has become a norm. With the increasing inclusion of computers, there is also a threat of security leaks and attacks to the integrity of one’s data. Multimedia streaming has become very common and with the number of online resources providing streaming of files, it has become necessary to ascertain the security of these files. For this purpose, the encryption of streaming video files is a field wide open for research. The basic idea behind encrypting “parts” or frames of a video file, as opposed to encrypting the whole file in one operation, is to ensure secure transmission of other parts of the file even if one part of the file is somehow decrypted or becomes insecure. This operation increases the level of security and ensures minimum loss to the user. Since this is just an initial approach towards making streaming of multimedia files secure, limitations do exist and there is always room for improvement. The application can be enhanced to include other multimedia formats in the future. However, it is hoped that this initial step in securing the streaming or video files in this time and age of growing Web services for online video viewing, will achieve its objective of providing security to both users, and content providers.