Public Key Cryptosystem Based on Optimized Chaos-Based Image Encryption

Abstract

Now is the era of online data and transaction, all this happens on an unsecured channel. With this huge data transfer, comes the need of protecting this data. Thus, to achieve security during transmission, several symmetric key encryption algorithms have been proposed. Inspired from researchers, we propose an asymmetric key image security algorithm based on chaotic tent map integrated with Optimized Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) for key generation and encryption for gray scale images. Diffusion and confusion are carried out in each round to mix plain text and key to it more secure. Experimental analysis shown by SSA are encouraging and is secure enough to resist brute force, differential cryptoanalysis and key sensitivity analysis attack and is suitable for practical application.