Image encryption is the most secure solution for storing images on a web server. Encrypted images cannot be displayed without first being decrypted otherwise they cannot be displayed, making any images stored on a server not only secure from unauthorized linking by the public, but they are also secure from web hosting staff and your web master.

First developed by ArtistScope in 1998, Secure Image is the only solution that will display encrypted images on a web page.

Encrypt images

To encrypt images you can use the Secure Image software which is a pure Java application that will run on all platforms... Windows, Mac or Linux. Secure Image uses a complex algorithm for image encryption that cannot be decoded. Image protection is further enhanced by the use of Domain Lock whereby the keycode used for the encryption is based on the url for the web site that will display the encrypted image. With ArtistScope's image encryption, the images can only be displayed (viewed) from the owner's web site.

• Encrypt GIF images and GIF animations
• Encrypt JPG images
• Encrypt PNG images
• Encrypt TIF images

Decrypt images

To display encrypted images Secure Image uses a special security applet which is also pure Java and is supported in all web browsers on all platforms.

Image protection

Encrypted images created by ArtistScope copy protection solutions cannot be displayed in any image viewer except ArtistScope's security applet and then only from the owner's web site. The keycode for decryption is embedded into the image and when loaded, the security applet checks the keycode against the url displaying the web site. If the encrypted image's keycode does not match the web site, the image is not displayed.

The most secure image protection

The same image encryption is used in another ArtistScope solution known as CopySafe which utilizes a special plugin to ensure that while the encrypted image is being displayed, that it cannot be captured by using Printscreen or any one of the many screen capture programs available.

Software protection

Encrypted images stored on your web site are safe from staff and your web host. They are also safe from retrieval from browser cache (temporary internet files) because the image in cache is the encrypted version and not one that has been decrypted. Only ArtistScope's security applet can decrypt the image and it does that only while displaying it on an authorized web site. The encrypted image is view only.

ArtistScope ensures that only licensed users can use the full version of their image encryption programs by custom compiling each program or order. Licence codes are not distributed. Instead the keycodes are embedded into the compiled software, ensuring that the technology is not distributed to hackers.