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Secured Transmission of a Real Time Image and

Text using Advanced Encryption Standard for
Military Purpose
Prof. Kundankumar Rameshwar Saraf1, Prof. Kushal Namdeo Mandge2, Prof. Pratik Dilip Shah3,
Prof. Komal Shivaji Mule4, Prof. Manishkumar Horilal Patel5
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Assistant Professor in Department of Electronics and Telecommunication,

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Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Engineering,

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Engineering affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
Maharashtra, India

Abstract
Army requires secure method which can transmit and receive
images of current location without unwanted third party
intrusion attack. This paper proposes the method in which text
and image encryption performed at the transmitter side. This
encrypted text and image can be sent through any wired or
wireless media to the receiver. At the receiver the decryption
of text and image can be performed. For both the encryption
and decryption Advanced Encryption Standard is used.
Any other available current technology either performs the
text encryption and decryption or performs the image
encryption and decryption. But this research proposes the
technology which can perform the both text as well as image
encryption decryption using the single gadget.
For text encryption and decryption 128 bit text inputs are
synthesized and simulated using simple C language code.
For image encryption and decryption any form of image input is
synthesized and simulated using simple java code.
This research uses the small gadget which comprises of two
different platforms. Each platform is used to execute either C
language Code or Java Code.
The result obtain from this research is completely intrusion free
and very fast.

Keywords Advanced Encryption Standard, Code Block

Chaining, Rijndael.

1. INTRODUCTION
Encryption and decryption of information is widely used
to avoid the unwanted intrusion attack in transmission and
storage of digital media. This process can be performed by
many methods like Data Encryption Standard, Blow-fish
Algorithm, Triple DES algorithm etc. But many of these
methods are susceptible to various kinds of attacks like
Brute Force Attack, attack on reflectively weak keys,
differential cryptanalysis attack etc.
Therefore the need of most secure and flexible algorithm
arises. The National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) started a search of Federal
information Processing Standard (FIPS). This standard
should be secure, fast and most flexible. This standard

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should replace Data Encryption standard. Due to the

advancement in Data Encryption standard, this new
standard is named as Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES). NIST selected Rijndael algorithm which can be
universally used in Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Since January 1997 National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) started the efforts towards developing
the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AES standard
uses symmetric key for the encryption. In 1997 NIST tried
to succeed DES and for that it made a worldwide public
call for finding the new algorithm. NIST initially selects
15 algorithms. After the detail analysis of selected 15
algorithms, they were reduced down to 5 algorithms. The
names of these five algorithms are RC6, MARS, Rijndael,
Serpent and Twofish. All these algorithms uses iterated
block ciphers. All these five algorithms were determined
to be qualified as the algorithm for AES.
After the extensive review the comparative results for all
five finalists are obtained. These results are shown in the
table 1 given below. Finally Rijndael algorithm is chosen
to be high speed, efficient, most secure and flexible for
AES standard.
The final stage of evaluation also solicited by worldwide
public input was based on three characteristics
1) Security - The algorithm should provide following
characteristic under security parameter:
(a) Mathematical soundness,
(b) Resistance to known attacks,
(c) Randomness of output and security compared to other
algorithms.
2) Cost Algorithm should provide high encryption speed
with required memory and without any licensing
agreements. In other words this algorithm should be
royalty free available worldwide.
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3) Algorithm and implementation characteristics
Along with simplicity the algorithm should be suitable
across a wide range of hardware and software systems.

2. PREVIOUS WORK
Data can be stored in many forms. For example, it is used
in the form of DBMS, ontology [7], taxonomies, etc. Data
that is decisive has to be encrypted because data is
backbone of industry.
2.1International Status
Modified AES for image encryption is proposed in [1]. In
this paper, author adds a key stream generator (A5/1, W7)
to AES. Due to this the encryption performance increases
for the images which are characterized by reduced
entropy. The detailed results shown in this paper
concludes the superiority of modified algorithm.
The enhanced model of Advanced Encryption Standard is
proposed in [2]. This model is mainly proposed for
possessing the better range of image encryption and good
level of security. By adjusting the Shift Row
Transformation the modification process can be carried
out. After the proper comparison between the original
AES encryption algorithm and the modified algorithm,
authors found that modified algorithm produces very good
encryption results focusing towards the security against
statistical attacks.
For the image security purpose the block-based
transformation algorithm is proposed in [3]. For this
transformation author uses the combination of image
transformation and image encryption techniques. This
algorithm is used prior to encryption. Purpose of this
algorithm is to confuse the relationship between the
generated image and the original image. The experimental
results in this paper show that this combinational
technique gives higher entropy value and lower
correlation value. Also it gives the more uniform
histogram and increases security of encrypted images as
compared to the Blowfish algorithm alone.
The problem related with simultaneous selective
encryption and image compression is addressed by [4].In
this paper the AES with Cipher Feedback (CFB) mode is
used to perform the selective encryption and image
compression is performed by JPEG algorithm. In this way
selective encryption and compression of images is easily
performed without affecting the compression rate and also
keeps JPEG bit stream compliance.
Text and image encryption is decryption using advanced
encryption standard is performed in [8]. In this DSP
processor and code composer studio is used for the text
encryption and decryption. For the image encryption and

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decryption this paper uses Java Application Platform

SDK.
The detail description of Text encryption and decryption
with the implementation method is given in [9]. It shows
the result by using 128 bit key and 128 bit input message
size.
National Status
At National level, the work on this topic is still going on.
Table 1: Some evaluation criteria and results for AES
finalists [6]
Algorithm

Security

Speed

No
attacks
have
been
reported
against
any of
the
finalists,
and no
other
properti
es have
been
reported
that
would
disqualif
y any of
them.

Enc/De
c

Key

RAM

ROM

High

Averag
e

Averag
e

Low
end

Low
end

Adequat
e

High
end

Averag
e

Averag
e

High
end

Adequat
e

High
end

High
end

High
end

High
end

Serpent

High

Low
end

Averag
e

Averag
e

Average

Twofish

High

Averag
e

High
end

High
end

Average

Mars

RC6

Rijndeal

Memory

3. SYSTEM MODEL
This project captures the image data in real time. Makes
the encryption of data using particular code word in AES
and transmit it through medium. After reception of data
same codeword should be given to decrypt the data.
Decryption gives the original image transmits from the
source. The similar process can be performed to send the
any text data from the transmitter to the receiver. This
project uses 128 bit AES algorithm is used in which each
character or space or number or symbol consists of 8 bit
binary code. Hence 128 8 = 16 characters or spaces or
symbol or number or mixture of all these can be used as
an input message or as a password.
In this way using the same gadget at the same time we can
transmit the text data as well as image data. At the
transmitter side simultaneous encryption of text and image
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can be performed. At the receiver side only encrypted data
can be obtained. This data is further decrypted by using
the password or key. Due to the use of similar password
during both the encryption and decryption process this
algorithm is called symmetric algorithm. The relevant
block diagram of procedure is given in figure 1 below.
Captured Image

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Flowchart for image and text encryption and decryption is

shown in figure 2 and figure 3 below respectively.
Execute the Encrypt code
Read the input image and text from the specified location
Apply AES CBCPKCS5 padding algorithm to this image
Get a password from the user

Encryption through AES

Image Transmission

Append salt bytes to the password before it is used to

calculate the key

Image Reception

Make password based encryption with MD5 and DES

algorithm

Image Decryption

Make a PBE Cipher object and initialize it to encrypt using

the given password

Stored decrypted image

Figure 1 Block diagram of system

Save the new encrypted image and new encrypted text

message to the specified location
Encrypted Image

4. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
Different operational modes of AES are Electronic
Codebook (ECB), Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), Output
Feedback (OFB), Cipher Feedback (CFB) and Counter
(CTR).
This research uses the modified version of AES in CBC
mode with Public Key Cryptography Standard 5
(PKCS#5) padding. Also for increasing the security salt
bytes are appended with the password. In addition to that
in this process password based encryption is performed by
MD5 and DES algorithm.
In the process of decryption appended salt bytes are
removed and decryption is performed using the same
password.

Figure 2 Flowchart of Encryption Process

Execute the Decrypt code
Get another same password from the user

No

Is this
expected
password?
Yes

Detect and remove the appended salt bytes from the password
Make a PBE Cipher object using MD5 and DES algorithm
and initialize it to decrypt using the given password.

Decrypt the image file and text file and save it to specified
location
Decrypted Image

Figure 3: Flowchart of Decryption Process

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Algorithm of the image encryption and decryption
(1) Image of required location is captured by using
camera.
(2) This image is stored at desired location in the
device.

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In this way we can send any message through this method

which has maximum 16 positions including the letters,
spaces, symbols and the numbers. The password length
should also be maximum 16 positions only.
The results of image encryption and decryption are as
follows.
Input image:

(3) After pressing encryption key encryption of image

using AES starts.
(4) During encryption device asked for the password.
(5) User provides desired password.
(6) After putting password image is encrypted.
(7) User press send key to send this encrypted image to
other military colleague.
(8) Receiver press decryption key to decrypt this image.
(9) During decryption device asked for the password.

Figure 4: Captured image by the soldier

(10) Receiver put the password.

(11) Password used for encryption and decryption
should be same for successful decryption.

Key or password: 1234

Encrypted image:

(12) Decrypted image is observed by the receiver.

5.SIMULATION/EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
In this research initially user 1 and user 2 decide two
different or the similar password for the text and image
encryption and decryption. The 128 text input and desired
captured image input is provided to the gadget. Using the
suitable platform the gadget performs the encryption of
this input. The encryption process only completed after
inserting the desired password by user 1. In this way two
separate encrypted files are generated for text input and
image input. The encrypted password protected input is
send through transmitter by using internet, Bluetooth,
NFC or any other media. At the receiver the encrypted
image files and the encrypted text file is observed to user
2. User 2 inserted the already communicated password for
the encrypted image and the text file. After inserting the
password the original decrypted image and text file can be
obtained to the user 2.
The results of text encryption and decryption are as
follows.
Input Message: Pqrstuvwxyz
128 bit key or password: ABCDEFGHIJK
Encrypted Message:
Decrypted Message: Pqrstuvwxyz

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Figure 5: Encrypted image with the help of symmetric

password
Decrypted image:

Figure 6: Decrypted image received after inserting the

similar password
In this process the image in any format (GIF, JPEG or
PNG) can be given to the input of gadget as shown in the
figure 4 above. This gadget performs the encryption by
using 128 bit password and sends the encrypted image
through the transmitter. At the receiver the encrypted
image as given in the figure 5 above is obtained. Receiver
inserted the similar password to decrypt the image. After
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decryption the original image is obtained as shown in the
figure 6 above.
Encryption and decryption time taken by different images
is calculated by Manoj. B, Manjula N Harihar [5]. It is
shown in table 2 below.
Average time required by AES for different images is
calculated by M. Zeghid, M. Machhout, L. Khriji, A.
Baganne, and R. Tourki [1]. It is shown in table 3 below.
They also compare encryption time using different
algorithms with AES. It is shown in table 4 below. From
this table it is found that AES requires least time as
compare to other algorithms.

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6.ADVANTAGES OF AES
AES is most useful encryption decryption algorithm
because of following advantages [6]
Advantages
It is royalty free very less cost solution.
This is most secured completely intrusion free
algorithm. Therefore third party intrusion attack is
100% avoided.
This uses flexible and easy to use method.
No need of particular training to use this method.

Table 2: Time taken for Different Images [5]

Image Size
256*256

Image Size
on Disk
66KB

Time taken to Encrypt

and Decrypt
0.707322ms

512*512

258KB

2.796286ms

1024*102

3.07MB

167.11ms

Table 3: Average Time Required By AES for Different

Images [1]
Image (Size)

Image (Size)

Lisaw (256256)

31.75 ms

Lena(256256)

31.75 ms

Cheetah(200320)

29, 25 ms

Clown (200320)

29, 25 ms

Rose (200320)

29, 25 ms

Mouse (200320)

29, 25 ms

Simple and symmetric.

Encrypt and decrypt own files also.
Fast and uses less computer resources.
This algorithm prevents the widespread message
security compromise.

7.CONCLUSION
The gadget used invented in this research is extremely
useful for the soldier. Because soldier can easily capture
the image of the terrorist attack and easily send it to the
battalion to take the further required actions. Also a text
data can send by the soldier. Both text and image data
send in the encrypted form and hence unwanted intrusion
attack is totally avoided.

8.FUTURE SCOPE

Table 4: Encryption Time Using Different Algorithms

with Lena as a Test Image [1]

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Video encryption and decryption using AES can be

developed in future. It will useful for various security
agencies to transmit videos through internet.

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AUTHOR
Prof. Kundankumar Rameshwar
Saraf received his M.E. degree in
VLSI Design and Embedded System
from K.arrmveer Kakasaheb Wagh
Institute of Engineering Education &
Research (K.K. Wagh), Nashik,
Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2013. He received his
B.E. degree from Shri Shivaji Vidyaprasarak Sansthas
Bapusaheb Shivajirao Deore College of Engineering,
Dhule, North Maharashtra University in 2010. He has got
6 years of teaching experience as an Assistant Professor in
Electronics and Tele Communication Engineering. He is
now performing the research on Light Fidelity Technology
and video encryption and decryption using Advanced
Encryption Standard.
Prof. Kushal Namdeo Mandge
received his M.E. degree in E&TC
from Datta Meghe College of
Engineering, Airoli, Navi Mumbai,
Univeristy of Mumbai in 2014. He
received his B.E. degree from
SSPMs College of Engineering,
Kankavali, University of Mumbai in

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2011. He has got 3 years of teaching experience as an

Assistant
Professor
in
Electronics
and
Tele
Communication Engineering. He is now performing the
research Advanced Encryption Standard, Networking.
Prof. Pratik D. Shah is currently
pursuing his Ph. D. from Savitribai
Phule Pune University. He completed
his post-graduation in VLSI and
Embedded from G. H. Raisoni
Institute
of
Engineering
and
Technology, Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University in
2013. He has got more than 5 years of teaching experience
in graduate level in Electronics and Tele Communication
Engineering. His field of research involves Image
Steganography, Evolutionary Computation, Data Hiding,
Genetic algorithm, Robotics and machine learning.
Prof. Komal Shivaji Mule received
M.E in Computer Science from Dr.
D. Y. Patil School of Engineering &
Technology, Pune, Savitribai Phule
Pune University in 2015. She has
completed B.E Computer from
Marathwada
Mitra
Mandals
Institute of Technology, Pune,
Savitribai Phule Pune University in
2012. Her field of research is information security, data
mining, DBMS.
Prof.Manishkumar Horilal Patel
received his M.E. degree in E&TC
from MITAOE Alandi, Pune,
Savitribai Phule Pune University
in 2012. He received his B.E
Degree from Pravara Rural
Engineering
College,
Loni,
Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2009. He has got more
than 5 years of teaching experience in graduate level in
Electronics and Tele Communication Engineering. His
field of research involves Wireless Sensor Network,
Antenna Design and Micro strip Patch Antenna.

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