Chaos-based Image Encryption Algorithm Research Articles

Cross-channel color image encryption through 2D hyperchaotic hybrid map of optimization test functions

The security of chaos-based Image Encryption (IE) algorithms inherently depends on the permutation and diffusion strategy of the algorithm and the dynamic performance of chaotic maps. However, the existing studies suffer from low disordering capability, poor dynamic performance, and lack of sensitivity of the chaotic maps. In order to address these limitations, a Cross-Channel Color IE (CCC-IE) algorithm is presented, which has high shuffling ability with diagonal permutation and bi-directional sequential diffusion through a novel 2D hyperchaotic hybrid map of optimization test functions. The proposed 2D hyperchaotic map, namely 2D-RG map, is designed by hybridizing the Rastrigin and Griewank functions. Their chaotic nature, such as high complexity and fluctuation, makes them suitable for design of chaotic map. The 2D-RG map-based CCC-IE algorithm diagonally scrambles the pixels of the image across RGB channels and sequentially manipulates the pixel values in bi-direction for improving resistance of the algorithm to the cyberthreats. The dynamic performance of the 2D-RG map and the reliability of the CCC-IE algorithm are separately investigated and validated through a detailed comparison with the state of the art. The results manifest that the CCC-IE not only visually but also numerically is the more reliable algorithm thanks to the superior chaotic characteristics of the 2D-RG map.

A New Chaos-Based Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Discrete Fourier Transform and Improved Joseph Traversal

To further enhance the security of image encryption, a new chaos-based image encryption algorithm (IEA) based on discrete Fourier transform and Joseph traversal is proposed to encrypt the plain image in both the frequency domain and space domain simultaneously. In the proposed IEA, the logistic map is used to generate the appropriate chaotic sequence, and the improved Joseph traversal is used to scramble the image in different starting positions and variable step sizes. Then, block diffusion is performed at the end. The main finding concerning the proposed IEA is that the combination of discrete Fourier transform and Joseph traversal can enhance the security of the image information, which has been validated by measuring the performance in resisting the common types of attacks.

Publisher Correction: Parallel chaos-based image encryption algorithm: high-level synthesis and FPGA implementation

Publisher Correction: Parallel chaos-based image encryption algorithm: high-level synthesis and FPGA implementation

JPEG-compatible Joint Image Compression and Encryption Algorithm with File Size Preservation

Joint image compression and encryption algorithms are intensively investigated due to their powerful capability of simultaneous image data compression and sensitive information protection. Unfortunately, most of the existing algorithms suffered from either poor compression efficiency or weak encryption strength, making them vulnerable to cryptanalysis. To address these limitations, we propose a chaos-based JPEG-compatible joint image compression and encryption algorithm. We separate the luminance and chrominance coefficients to preserve file size and encrypt the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients in parallel. The proposed inter-block DC encryption strategy achieves high encryption intensity based on the permutation-substitution structure. In addition, we apply both inter- and intra-block permutations to AC coefficients and strengthen the encryption using an inter-block substitution for non-zero AC coefficients. The results of security and performance analyses demonstrate that the proposed algorithm offers robust encryption of image data while maintaining compression efficiency for real-time transmission.

Parallel chaos-based image encryption algorithm: high-level synthesis and FPGA implementation

Parallel chaos-based image encryption algorithm: high-level synthesis and FPGA implementation

Hybrid chaos-based image encryption algorithm using Chebyshev chaotic map with deoxyribonucleic acid sequence and its performance evaluation

<span lang="EN-US">The media content shared on the internet has increased tremendously nowadays. The streaming service has major role in contributing to internet traffic all over the world. As the major content shared are in the form of images and rapid increase in computing power a better and complex encryption standard is needed to protect this data from being leaked to unauthorized person. Our proposed system makes use of chaotic maps, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) coding and ribonucleic acid (RNA) coding technique to encrypt the image. As videos are nothing but collection of images played at the rate of minimum 30 frames/images per second, this methodology can also be used to encrypt videos. The complexity and dynamic nature of chaotic systems makes decryption of <span>content by unauthorized personal difficult. The hybrid usage of chaotic systems along with DNA and RNA sequencing improves the encryption efficiency of the algorithm and also makes it possible to decrypt the images at the same time without consuming too much</span> of computation power.</span>

A secure, efficient and super-fast chaos-based image encryption algorithm for real-time applications

A secure, efficient and super-fast chaos-based image encryption algorithm for real-time applications

A novel conservative chaos driven dynamic DNA coding for image encryption

Recently, many image encryption algorithms based on hybrid DNA and chaos have been developed. Most of these algorithms utilize chaotic systems exhibiting dissipative dynamics and periodic windows/patterns in the bifurcation diagrams along with co-existing attractors in the neighborhoods of parameter space. Therefore, such algorithms generate several weak keys, thereby making them prone to various chaos- specific attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel conservative chaotic standard map-driven dynamic DNA coding (encoding, addition, subtraction and decoding) for image encryption. It is the first hybrid DNA and conservative chaos-based image encryption algorithm having effectively infinite key space. The proposed image encryption algorithm is a dynamic DNA coding algorithm i.e., for the encryption of each pixel different rules for encoding, addition/subtraction, decoding etc. are randomly selected based on the pseudorandom sequences generated with the help of the conservative chaotic standard map. We propose a novel way to generate pseudo-random sequences through the conservative chaotic standard map and also test them rigorously through the most stringent test suite of pseudo-randomness, the NIST test suite, before using them in the proposed image encryption algorithm. Our image encryption algorithm incorporates unique feed-forward and feedback mechanisms to generate and modify the dynamic one-time pixels that are further used for the encryption of each pixel of the plain image, therefore, bringing in the desired sensitivity on plaintext as well as ciphertext. All the controlling pseudorandom sequences used in the algorithm are generated for a different value of the parameter (part of the secret key) with inter-dependency through the iterates of the chaotic map (in the generation process) and therefore possess extreme key sensitivity too. The performance and security analysis has been executed extensively through histogram analysis, correlation analysis, information entropy analysis, DNA sequence-based analysis, perceptual quality analysis, key sensitivity analysis, plaintext sensitivity analysis, classical attack analysis, etc. The results are promising and prove the robustness of the algorithm against various common cryptanalytic attacks.

A Novel Image Encryption Algorithm Based on 2D Self-Coupling Sine Map

Since the current general image encryption algorithms based on chaotic systems and classical permutation diffusion structures typically suffer from stochastic degradation, simple algorithm structures, and reduced execution efficiency when dealing with images with large data, this paper proposes a new multiprocess image encryption algorithm based on a new hyperchaotic coupled sine map. To begin with, by performing dynamic analyses of the map, including equilibrium points, bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponent diagrams, and phase diagrams, associated performance analyses show high spectral entropy (SE) values and permutation entropy (PE) values. Meanwhile, sequences generated by the proposed map are able to pass the NIST randomness test, which shows its suitability for the design of encryption algorithms. Then, a chaos-based image encryption algorithm is proposed in this paper: In the preprocessing stage, the images are sparsely sampled using a compressed-sensing method; in the permutation stage, the image is decomposed into eight bit-plane images containing only 0s and 1s and a clockwise cyclic shift operation based on a chaotic sequence is applied in each bit-plane image to achieve a bit-level permutation effect; in the diffusion stage, the block DNA random computing is applied to the permuted image to modify the pixel values and the final cipher image is obtained. In addition, the initial value of the map is determined by the preset initial value, user-defined strings, and the Hash value of the plain image, where the Hash value of the plain image is calculated by the SHA-256 algorithm. Finally, the analysis of the algorithm demonstrates that the algorithm exhibits extremely strong plaintext correlation externally and excellent encryption performance in terms of attack resistance and execution efficiency.

Design of hyperchaotic system based on multi-scroll and its encryption algorithm in color image

Chaotic systems are suitable for image encryption due to their numerous intrinsic properties. However, the low-dimensional chaotic systems used in many existing chaos-based image encryption algorithms suffer from various drawbacks. To overcome such problems, a new four-dimensional multi-scroll hyperchaotic system is constructed in this paper. By studying the stability of equilibrium point, dissipation attractors, Lyapunov exponent spectrum, and bifurcation diagram of the system, these are proved that the system has rich dynamical behaviors. Then, based on the system, a new color image encryption algorithm is designed by using the classical structure of the ‘scrambling-diffusion-scrambling’ algorithm. In this image encryption algorithm, an optimized Arnold transform is used and the plaintext pixel sum is applied to the scrambling parameters so that different plaintext image pixels correspond to different scrambling parameters and are fully resistant to plaintext attacks. Then for the three Red, Green, Blue (RGB) channels, three different diffusion directions are adopted. Finally, the correlation between the pixels is further broken by an ascending permutation scrambling operation to get the final encrypted image. The experimental results show that the key space is up to 2207, the information entropy is up to 7.9998, the Number of Pixels Change Rate (NPCR) and the Unified Average Changing Intensity (UACI) values are close to the ideal values, the scheme can resist exhaustive and differential attacks, and the scheme has good robustness through noise attacks and crop attacks.

An efficient chaos-based image encryption algorithm using real-time object detection for smart city applications

Currently, an increasing number of digital images are being generated by and for the general public and professionals. Simultaneously, the protection of these images is crucial for various emerging applications. Encryption is a popular technique for protecting image data confidentiality and privacy. There are multiple existing studies on image encryption, however, most of them are computationally overhead and do not achieve high security. Considering that time cost and security have become the most important factors, designing an efficient encryption algorithm for digital images are necessary. In this paper, a secure chaos-based image encryption algorithm for smart city applications is proposed. First, the You Only Look Once v3 object detection algorithm is used to quickly identify the objects of an image. Second, initialisation and generation of a key is performed with confusion and diffusion operations to get an encrypted object image. This algorithm for encryption has the advantage of strong security performance combined with speed, which is not available in the general encryption system. Experimental results show that this proposed algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art schemes.

A novel content-selected image encryption algorithm based on the LS chaotic model

Many holistic image encryption schemes have been proposed in recent decades that achieve a certain security level. However, considering the actual application environment, sometimes it is not necessary to encrypt the whole image, but rather a selected specific content of the image. Thus, this paper proposes a chaos-based image encryption algorithm for specific contents with non-regular size. First, we construct a novel LS chaos model that combines the Sine map and Logistic map and then improve its chaotic complexity by perturbing control parameters and introducing delayed states. Second, we obtain the coordinates of each pixel of specific image content using the PSPNet semantic segmentation model trained on the Cityscapes dataset and the Faster-RCNN target detection model trained on the MS-COCO dataset. Finally, the selected pixels are encrypted using a proposed non-regular size encryption algorithm. Several simulation experimental results prove that this new LS chaos model exhibits superior chaotic properties and generates complex pseudo-random sequences. Furthermore, our chaotic encryption algorithm effectively implements image encryption for specific content and shows excellent encryption performance, indicating that our encryption algorithm is highly competitive in terms of security capability.

A cluster of 1D quadratic chaotic map and its applications in image encryption

Chaotic systems are widely used in designing encryption algorithms for their ideal dynamical performances. One-dimensional (1D) chaotic maps have the highest efficiency in implementation and have achieved great attention. However, 1D chaotic maps have a common security weakness, which is that their key space is relatively small. Therefore, in this paper, a cluster of 1D quadratic chaotic maps is proposed according to the topological conjugate theory. The 1D chaotic map has three tunable parameters which have a significant expansion in parameter space than the traditional 1D chaotic maps. The 1D map is proved to be chaotic theoretically since it is topologically conjugated with a logistic chaotic map. An example of a 1D quadratic chaotic map is provided in this paper, and several numerical simulation results indicate that this 1D quadratic map has ideal chaotic characteristics, which are consistent with the theoretical analysis. To verify the effectiveness of this 1D quadratic map, a novel image encryption algorithm is proposed. The security of this image encryption algorithm is completely dependent on the properties of the 1D quadratic map. Security experimental test results show that this image encryption algorithm has a high-security level, and is quite competitive with other chaos-based image encryption algorithms.

A novel image encryption algorithm based on DNA strand exchange and diffusion

This article proposes an improved tent-dynamic cross coupled map lattice, which has superior ergodicity, broader chaotic range and higher information entropies than cross coupled map lattice and tent-dynamic cross coupled map lattice, and has high suitability for chaos-based image encryption algorithm. Traditional encryption scheme has two significant stages, including image confusion and diffusion. Our encryption algorithm utilizes DNA coding and sequences to construct short DNA strand and long DNA strand, where short DNA strand is used for DNA strand exchange, and long DNA strand is used for DNA strand diffusion. Compared to general image confusion, DNA strand exchange permutates parts of two diverse DNA strands, where the length of exchange is uncertain. Compared to image diffusion, DNA strand diffusion is divided into two categories according to Watson-Crick base pairing property, and different category applies diverse DNA computation operation. Through security analysis and statistical analysis, our encryption scheme can resist different attacks. Experimental results confirm that the proposed algorithm has a high degree of security and the excellent efficiency.

Chaos-Based Fast Image Encryption Scheme with Double Zigzag Permutation and Secure SHA256

Encryption is generally used to protect the content of images. This paper proposes a simple chaos-based color image encryption algorithm with permutation and diffusion stages dependent on the plain image to increase plain text sensitivity by collaboratively leveraging a sampled random noise signal, SHA-256, Henon chaotic map, double zigzag scanning and Lorenz system. Specifically, a hash value of the plain image and a sampled true random noise signal are generated using SHA-256 hash function and considered as an initial one-time key, which is then used to locate values from the sampled true random noise signal array to define the initial values and parameters for chaotic Henon map and Lorenz system. The Henon chaotic map creates an output that defines the starting point for double zigzag pixel scanning in the permutation stage, whereas the Lorenz system generates three sequences to diffuse the image’s three components; red, green, and blue using the XOR operation in order to get an encrypted image. Finally, statistical analysis results are offered to evaluate the complexity and ascertain security functionality for the proposed algorithm. Results show that the proposed image encryption algorithm is superior in comparison to other existing algorithms.

FPGA implementation of a chaos-based image encryption algorithm

With the rapid development of communication networks and the establishment of 5G networks, there is a growing demand for the transmission of images and videos with different sizes and formats. Since these can contain sensitive and personal information, security is of great importance when transferring the contents of such files. Therefore, the use of powerful encryption mechanisms is an absolute requirement to protect the confidentiality of the exchanged data. In this study, we propose an image encryption algorithm with a high level of security. Thus, a chaotic system is proposed, and its state variables have been used to create a new substitution matrix. The importance of this matrix lies both in its use to generate encryption keys and in the encryption algorithm itself. In formulating the proposed encryption algorithm, we adopted the Feistel network in addition to some steps of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The results of the various tests prove that the proposed algorithm guarantees high resistance to statistical and differential attacks and can therefore be used safely in image encryption. The incorporation of various algorithms suggested in this article in the form of IPcore for FPGA platforms amply promotes the use of our cryptosystem in various embedded systems or IoT environments.

A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution

Privacy is a serious concern related to sharing videos or images among people over the Internet. As a method to preserve images’ privacy, chaos-based image encryption algorithms have been used widely to fulfil such a requirement. However, these algorithms suffer from a low key-space, significant computational overhead, and a lag in resistance against differential attacks. This paper presents a novel chaos-based image encryption method based on permutation and substitution using a single Substitution Box (S-Box) to address issues in contemporary image encryption algorithms. The proposed encryption technique’s efficiency is validated through extensive experiments as compared to the state-of-the-art encryption algorithms using different measures and benchmarks. Precisely, the collected results demonstrate that the proposed technique is more resilient against well-known statistical attacks and performs well under plaintext attacks. Indeed, the proposed scheme exhibits very high sensitivity concerning the plaintext attack. A minor change in the encryption key or the plain text would result in a completely different encrypted image.

A Secure and Lightweight Chaos Based Image Encryption Scheme

In this paper, we present an image encryption scheme based on the multi-stage chaos-based image encryption algorithm. The method works on the principle of confusion and diffusion. The proposed scheme containing both confusion and diffusion modules are highly secure and effective as compared to the existing schemes. Initially, an image (red, green, and blue components) is partitioned into blocks with an equal number of pixels. Each block is then processed with Tinkerbell Chaotic Map (TBCM) to get shuffled pixels and shuffled blocks. Composite Fractal Function (CFF) change the value of pixels of each color component (layer) to obtain a random sequence. Through the obtained random sequence, three layers of plain image are encrypted. Finally, with each encrypted layer, Brownian Particles (BP) are XORed that added an extra layer of security. The experimental tests including a number of statistical tests validated the security of the presented scheme. The results reported in the paper show that the proposed scheme has higher security and is lightweight as compared to state-of-the-art methods proposed in the literature.

A novel image encryption algorithm based on SPWLCM and DNA coding

Using chaotic system for image encryption is a feasible and popular research interest. In this paper, a compound Sine-Piecewise Linear Chaotic Map is proposed to improve the chaotic characteristics of the original chaotic map. Compared with the original chaotic system, the proposed compound chaotic system has better dynamics performances, larger parameter space, which is more suitable for cryptographic applications. Furthermore, an image encryption algorithm based on this chaotic model and varying DNA coding is proposed. In this encryption algorithm, a novel method is provided to convert decimal numbers to binary numbers. Several numerical experiments show that the proposed encryption algorithm has good security performances, and is competitive with other chaos-based image encryption algorithms.

An efficient chaos based image encryption algorithm using enhanced thorp shuffle and chaotic convolution function

An efficient chaos based image encryption algorithm using enhanced thorp shuffle and chaotic convolution function