Image Cipher Technique for Covert and Low Bandwidth Channels

Security of images during the transmission over covert low bandwidth channel has importance in today's image communications for confidential, integrated and secure real time communication. The major security problems during communication over covert and low bandwidth channel is to reduce no of bits, efficient and secure cryptographic techniques such that output gain and performance may lead towards more secure and efficient mechanism. Thus, in this paper, we have purposed a secure, reliable and efficient mechanism using arithmetic coding techniques followed by IMAES (Improved Modified Advanced Encryption standard) techniques. The output of encrypted images reveals that proposed technique presents higher performance, quit reliable and robust.