A secure image encryption scheme based on genetic operations and a new hybrid pseudo random number generator

Abstract

This paper presents an encryption scheme based on genetic operations and a new hybrid pseudo random number generator (HPRNG). The new HPRNG is designed based on linear feedback shift register (LFSR), chaotic asymmetric tent map and chaotic logistic map. The scheme uses XOR and genetic operations (mutation, and multipoint crossover) to encrypt the image blocks. The first block of the plain image is encrypted with the help of a pseudo-random bit sequence generated by the HPRNG. The subsequent blocks are based on the previous cipher block and the XOR operator. The scheme can be extended to encrypt color images and text as well. The cipher images produced have very low correlation with their corresponding plain images and have high values of entropy, making it unpredictable and difficult to detect redundancies in the image pixel values. More over the scheme is compared with some existing schemes and found that the proposed scheme is comparatively secure and efficient.