A New and Secure Cryptosystem for Image Encryption and Decryption

Abstract

Illegal data access has become prevalent in wireless and general communication networks. Recently, the use of chaotic signals for secure data transmission has shown significant growth in developing chaotic encryption and decryption algorithms. The application of the Brahmagupta–Bhãskara (BB) equation for encryption is reported in a very recent article. However, a number of chaos-based algorithms are proved to be insecure in the literature. It is also shown in the literature that the BB equation based algorithm can be broken by a low complexity known plaintext attack. Hence, in this paper, a new secure cryptosystem based on the BB equation and chaos is proposed for image encryption and decryption. Cryptanalysis of the proposed cryptosystem is also provided. The efficacy of the proposed cryptosystem is illustrated through implementation results on two images.