A systematic review on video encryption algorithms: A future research

Abstract

Video Encryption is widely used in many real-time applications today. Despite numerous video encryption techniques that are available today, the challenges such as time and space complexity, real time latency, scalability and vulnerability towards few attacks still exist in the research domain, however few algorithms have achieved acceptable computational complexity, but in such cases vulnerability to certain attacks (differential, statistical, plain text attack, and cipher text attacks) are still a threat to secure video transmission. To the best of our knowledge, a comprehensive but detailed systematic literature review on video encryption is needed for the researchers in the scientific community. This paper, therefore, presents a systematic literature review of 30 scientific documents extracted from platforms like scopus and web of science. The paper, comprehensively addresses, various techniques of video encryption and encoding, different evaluation parameters to testify the performance of the algorithms and discusses the challenges of the existing video encryption algorithms. After careful investigation, it has been observed the approaches which involve encryption of the video data post the same has been encoded is the most efficient and scalable approach towards video encryption. In addition, it also implies that in near future, the proposed algorithms, must be evaluated based on the various categorization of parameters illustrated in this paper.