Improved High Definition Multimedia Interface Authentication Mechanism

R. N. Iyare^1*, S. D. Walker²

¹Department of Physics and Electronics, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.
²School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2014.212003                

Abstract

Security information has become so significant in transmission due to the rapid advancement in digital data exchange. Thus, it is necessary to protect the confidentiality and licensing of video content from illegal access. Currently, High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) provides the confidentiality and licensing of digital content for High Digital Multimedia Interface (HDMI). In this paper, we have been able to show how cryptanalysts have conducted attacks on the HDCP protocol showing its vulnerability in protecting digital contents. Therefore, the HDCP scheme is seriously flawed and compromised. Encryption and decryption of audio/video files were implemented in both Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithms by means of Python Cryptography Toolkit (Pycrypto). Security analysis such as key space analysis and statistical analysis were carried out on the encrypted image. The result of the analysis indicates that AES algorithm is secure and robust; hence the authentication and licensing of HDMI can be improved by implementing HDCP design with AES algorithm.

Keywords

Security, Encryption, Cryptanalyst, Authentication

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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