Digital Images and video encryption plays an important role in today’s multimedia world. Many encryption

schemes have been proposed to provide security for digital images. Usually the symmetric key ciphering algorithms

are used in encrypting digital images because it is fast and use the techniques for block and stream ciphers. Data

Encryption Standard is symmetric key encryption algorithm. In spite of the successful cracking of the data

encryption standard by massive brute force attacks, data encryption standard algorithm is an entrenched

technology and still useful for many purposes. In this paper, we use some of the image quality encryption

measuring factors to study the effect of data encryption standard algorithm in image ciphering. The results show

that the data encryption standard algorithm is fast and it achieves a good encryption rate for image ciphering using

different modes of operation.