A Novel Latin Square Image Cipher

In this paper, we introduce a symmetric-key Latin square image cipher (LSIC) for grayscale and color images. Our contributions to the image encryption community include 1) we develop new Latin square image encryption primitives including Latin Square Whitening, Latin Square S-box and Latin Square P-box ; 2) we provide a new way of integrating probabilistic encryption in image encryption by embedding random noise in the least significant image bit-plane; and 3) we construct LSIC with these Latin square image encryption primitives all on one keyed Latin square in a new loom-like substitution-permutation network. Consequently, the proposed LSIC achieve many desired properties of a secure cipher including a large key space, high key sensitivities, uniformly distributed ciphertext, excellent confusion and diffusion properties, semantically secure, and robustness against channel noise. Theoretical analysis show that the LSIC has good resistance to many attack models including brute-force attacks, ciphertext-only attacks, known-plaintext attacks and chosen-plaintext attacks. Experimental analysis under extensive simulation results using the complete USC-SIPI Miscellaneous image dataset demonstrate that LSIC outperforms or reach state of the art suggested by many peer algorithms. All these analysis and results demonstrate that the LSIC is very suitable for digital image encryption. Finally, we open source the LSIC MATLAB code under webpage https://sites.google.com/site/tuftsyuewu/source-code.Comment: 26 pages, 17 figures, and 7 table

Synchronization of spatiotemporal semiconductor lasers and its application in color image encryption

Optical chaos is a topic of current research characterized by high-dimensional nonlinearity which is attributed to the delay-induced dynamics, high bandwidth and easy modular implementation of optical feedback. In light of these facts, which adds enough confusion and diffusion properties for secure communications, we explore the synchronization phenomena in spatiotemporal semiconductor laser systems. The novel system is used in a two-phase colored image encryption process. The high-dimensional chaotic attractor generated by the system produces a completely randomized chaotic time series, which is ideal in the secure encoding of messages. The scheme thus illustrated is a two-phase encryption method, which provides sufficiently high confusion and diffusion properties of chaotic cryptosystem employed with unique data sets of processed chaotic sequences. In this novel method of cryptography, the chaotic phase masks are represented as images using the chaotic sequences as the elements of the image. The scheme drastically permutes the positions of the picture elements. The next additional layer of security further alters the statistical information of the original image to a great extent along the three-color planes. The intermediate results during encryption demonstrate the infeasibility for an unauthorized user to decipher the cipher image. Exhaustive statistical tests conducted validate that the scheme is robust against noise and resistant to common attacks due to the double shield of encryption and the infinite dimensionality of the relevant system of partial differential equations.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures; Article in press, Optics Communications (2011

Authenticated public key elliptic curve based on deep convolutional neural network for cybersecurity image encryption application

The demand for cybersecurity is growing to safeguard information flow and enhance data privacy. This essay suggests a novel authenticated public key elliptic curve based on a deep convolutional neural network (APK-EC-DCNN) for cybersecurity image encryption application. The public key elliptic curve discrete logarithmic problem (EC-DLP) is used for elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman key exchange (EC-DHKE) in order to generate a shared session key, which is used as the chaotic system’s beginning conditions and control parameters. In addition, the authenticity and confidentiality can be archived based on ECC to share the (Formula presented.) parameters between two parties by using the EC-DHKE algorithm. Moreover, the 3D Quantum Chaotic Logistic Map (3D QCLM) has an extremely chaotic behavior of the bifurcation diagram and high Lyapunov exponent, which can be used in high-level security. In addition, in order to achieve the authentication property, the secure hash function uses the output sequence of the DCNN and the output sequence of the 3D QCLM in the proposed authenticated expansion diffusion matrix (AEDM). Finally, partial frequency domain encryption (PFDE) technique is achieved by using the discrete wavelet transform in order to satisfy the robustness and fast encryption process. Simulation results and security analysis demonstrate that the proposed encryption algorithm achieved the performance of the state-of-the-art techniques in terms of quality, security, and robustness against noise- and signal-processing attacks

Research on digital image watermark encryption based on hyperchaos

The digital watermarking technique embeds meaningful information into one or more watermark images hidden in one image, in which it is known as a secret carrier. It is difficult for a hacker to extract or remove any hidden watermark from an image, and especially to crack so called digital watermark. The combination of digital watermarking technique and traditional image encryption technique is able to greatly improve anti-hacking capability, which suggests it is a good method for keeping the integrity of the original image. The research works contained in this thesis include: (1)A literature review the hyperchaotic watermarking technique is relatively more advantageous, and becomes the main subject in this programme. (2)The theoretical foundation of watermarking technologies, including the human visual system (HVS), the colour space transform, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), the main watermark embedding algorithms, and the mainstream methods for improving watermark robustness and for evaluating watermark embedding performance. (3) The devised hyperchaotic scrambling technique it has been applied to colour image watermark that helps to improve the image encryption and anti-cracking capabilities. The experiments in this research prove the robustness and some other advantages of the invented technique. This thesis focuses on combining the chaotic scrambling and wavelet watermark embedding to achieve a hyperchaotic digital watermark to encrypt digital products, with the human visual system (HVS) and other factors taken into account. This research is of significant importance and has industrial application value

A parallel block-based encryption schema for digital images using reversible cellular automata

AbstractWe propose a novel images encryption schema based on reversible one-dimensional cellular automata. Contrasting to the sequential operating mode of several existing approaches, the proposed one is fully parallelizable since the encryption/decryption tasks can be executed using multiple processes running independently for the same single image. The parallelization is made possible by defining a new RCA-based construction of an extended pseudorandom permutation that takes a nonce as a supplementary parameter. The defined PRP exploit the chaotic behavior and the high initial condition's sensitivity of the RCAs to ensure perfect cryptographic security properties. Results of various experiments and analysis show that high security and execution performances can be achieved using the approach, and furthermore, it provides the ability to perform a selective area decryption since any part of the ciphered-image can be deciphered independently from others, which is very useful for real time applications

A Novel Technique for Secure Data Cryptosystem Based on Chaotic Key Image Generation

أحدثت التطورات في تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات، خلال العقود الماضية، تغييراً كبيراً في نمط نقل معلومات الأشخاص عبر الإنترنت/الشبكات أو تخزينها. لذا، فإن أحد التحديات الرئيسية هو الحفاظ على هذه المعلومات بصورة آمنة ضد الهجمات. أدرك العديد من الباحثين والمؤسسات أهمية وفوائد التشفير في تحقيق الكفاءة والفاعلية بمختلف جوانب الاتصال الآمن.يتبنى هذا العمل تقنية جديدة لنظام تشفير البيانات الآمن على أساس نظرية الفوضى. تولد الخوارزمية المقترحة مصفوفة مفاتيح ثنائية الأبعاد لها ذات أبعاد الصورة الأصلية والتي تتضمن أرقاما عشوائية تم الحصول عليها من الخريطة الفوضوية اللوجستية أحادية الأبعاد وفق معطيات معاملات التحكم، والتي تتم معالجتها بعد ذلك من خلال تحويل الأجزاء العشرية منها عن طريق دالة إلى مجموعة من الأرقام غير المتكررة التي تؤدي إلى عدد هائل من الاحتمالات الغير قابلة للتوقع (مفكوك ناتج ضرب الصفوف في الأعمدة). يتم إجراء بعثرة مزدوجة للصفوف والأعمدة لقيم الأرقام لعدد محدد من المراحل. بعد ذلك، يتم تنفيذ عمليات XOR بين مصفوفة المفاتيح والصورة الأصلية، والتي تمثل حلاً فعالاً لتشفير البيانات لأي نوع من الملفات (النصية، الصورية، الصوتية، الفيديوية، ... إلخ).أثبتت النتائج أن تقنية التشفير المقترحة تعتبر جدا واعدة وفقا لمعايير القياسات الأمنية حيث أدت إلى تسطيح Histogram للصور المشفرة مقارنة بما هو عليه بالصور الأصلية، في حين أن متوسطات MSE عالية جدا (10115.48) و PSNR منخفضة جدا (8.17)، إلى جانب مؤشر Correlation هو قريب من الصفر و Entropy القريبة من 8 (7.997).The advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), within the previous decades, has significantly changed people’s transmit or store their information over the Internet or networks. So, one of the main challenges is to keep these information safe against attacks. Many researchers and institutions realized the importance and benefits of cryptography in achieving the efficiency and effectiveness of various aspects of secure communication.This work adopts a novel technique for secure data cryptosystem based on chaos theory. The proposed algorithm generate 2-Dimensional key matrix having the same dimensions of the original image that includes random numbers obtained from the 1-Dimensional logistic chaotic map for given control parameters, which is then processed by converting the fractional parts of them through a function into a set of non-repeating numbers that leads to a vast number of unpredicted probabilities (the factorial of rows times columns). Double layers of rows and columns permutation are made to the values of numbers for a specified number of stages. Then, XOR is performed between the key matrix and the original image, which represent an active resolve for data encryption for any type of files (text, image, audio, video, … etc). The results proved that the proposed encryption technique is very promising when tested on more than 500 image samples according to security measurements where the histograms of cipher images are very flatten compared with that for original images, while the averages of Mean Square Error is very high (10115.4) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio is very low (8.17), besides Correlation near zero and Entropy close to 8 (7.9975)