Image encryption with cross colour field algorithm and improved cascade chaos systems

Abstract

In this study, the critical factor of the chaos system has been analysed to improve the randomicity of the encryption keyspace. Several chaos systems have been integrated together with a linear function to form a much more efficient key sequence generator. This study also presents the cross colour field confusion method which scrambles the pixels among the R G B colour matrixes. In this way, the range of the pixels scrambling map is extended to three matrixes compared to the traditional pixels scrambling schemes which do pixels scrambling in its own colour matrix. The experiment results show that the improved cascade system has better bifurcation diagrams. The cross colour field diffusion algorithm makes the encrypted image has little pixel correlation and no information leakage. The experiment results justify that the novel cross colour confusion scheme with improved chaos systems has a good ability to resist brute force attack, known plain attack, chosen plain text attack, chosen ciphertext attack and differential attack. The security analysis demonstrates that the proposed approach has satisfactory properties in image encryption.