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Towards the design of new cryptographic algorithm and performance evaluation measures

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Security and confidentiality are one of the main concerns when transmitting multimedia data over the Internet. To deal with the arising security issues, many advanced cryptographic algorithms have been proposed in the literature. The efficiency of these encryption algorithms varies according to the application area in which they are deployed. Although there are many objective evaluation metrics available in the literature to measure the performance of the cryptographic algorithms, however, to the best of our knowledge, no survey or review addresses the quality of the metrics for cryptography algorithms. In this paper, we have presented and analyzed the cryptography algorithms and performance evaluation metrics such as resource utilization measure, quality measure, and security measures to evaluate the security performance of different encryption algorithms for multimedia data. Extensive experiments have been carried out to evaluate the performance of the cryptography algorithms for multimedia data such as images and videos. We have also discussed and analyzed in detail the performance of evaluation measures used to validate the cryptography algorithms. Our findings highlight the strength of different cryptography algorithms and performance evaluation metrics. The analysis is expected to contribute to the design of a new and efficient model for multimedia applications. A detailed analysis of major attacks was also presented for each encryption scheme in tabular form.

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  3. Department of Information & Communication Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Asjad Amin & Muhammad Ali Qureshi

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Farooq, A., Tariq, S., Amin, A. et al. Towards the design of new cryptographic algorithm and performance evaluation measures. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 9709–9759 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15673-7

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