Audio encryption based on the cosine number transform

In this paper, we introduce an audio encryption scheme based on the cosine number transform (CNT). The transform, which is defined over a finite field, is recursively applied to blocks of samples of a noncompressed digital audio signal. The blocks are selected using a simple overlapping rule, which provides diffusion of the ciphered data to all processed blocks. A secret-key is used to specify the number of times the transform is applied to each...