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Abstract

An encryption technology uses an encryption map and video graphics processing technology to combine an encryption map with the image data. Video image processing using maps, such as texture maps, bump maps and the like are combined with an encryption map to generate and encrypted image data. The image is subsequently decrypted using encryption keys that are combined with the encrypted image data using video graphics processing technologies. The decryption map is combined with the encrypted signal to generate a viewable image. The encryption keys may be on a per pixel basis with a separate encryption key for each pixel. Alternatively, an encryption key may contain active keys that may be used to decrypt more than one pixel as well as decoy keys that do not decrypt the signal and thus confound unauthorized decryption attempts. Using encryption maps, single video frames or portions of video frames may be encrypted. The encryption maps may be used with scaled image data and with two dimensional or three dimensional graphics processors.

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