optical encryption technology has been a subject of receiving many research efforts because of inherently parallel nature of optical information processing, high security strength and huge degree of freedom for key design. Optical security technology has appeared very promising and is likely the next generation of information security. An implementation of virtual-optics based encryption with a parallel hardware strategy is presented. A TMS320C6000 digital signal processor is used to design an information hiding system with multiple-locks and multiple-keys. An evaluation of the system performance is made and it is shown that the encryption and decryption of digital information in real-time can be achieved with such a strategy. This approach paves the way for the realization of virtual-optics based methodology by combining major advantages of optical encryption and electronic encryption.