Information security is an important task on
multimedia and communication world. During storing and
sharing maintaining a strategic distance from the outsider access
of information is the difficult one. There are many encryption
algorithms that can provide data security. In this paper two of the
encryption algorithms namely AES and RSA are implemented for
color images. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a
symmetric key block cipher published in December 2001 by NSIT
(National Institute of Standards and Technology). RSA
(Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is an asymmetric key block cipher. It
uses two separate keys, one for encryption called the public key
and other for decryption called the private key. Both the
implementation and analysis are done in Matlab. The quality and
security level of both the algorithms is analysed based on various
criteria such as Histogram analysis, Correlation analysis, Entropy
analysis, NPCR (Number of Pixel Change Rate), UACI (Unified
Average Changing Intensity), PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise
Ratio).