Year
1996
Abstract
Through the collaborative efforts of the German and Australian Support Programmed to the IAEA the &sign and vulnerability testing of a video data authentication and encryption (VDAE) device has been completed. The VDAE &vice digitizes and processes a standard video signal source (e.g. the output from a commercial video camera with CCIR or EIA-170 standard composite signal). The VDAE design concept was agreed upon by the IAEA Euratom, and the developer. From that concept, a single device has been developed which provi&s scene change detection, image compression, authentication, encryption, removable back-up memory for at least 4,000 compressed images and a sophisticated system of power management. The VDAE has the potential to become the basis of reliable, state-of-the-art, digital surveillance camera modules with applications in single,multi-channel and remote monitoring optical surveillance systems. The technical and cryptographic vulnerabilities of the VDAE were investigated by the Defence Signals Directorate. This paper reviews the VDAE &sign and describes the tests and outcome of the vulnerability assessment.