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A plaintext-related image encryption algorithm based on chaos

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A symmetric key image cryptosystem based on the piecewise linear map is presented in this paper. In this cryptosystem, the encryption process and the decryption process are exactly same. They both include the same operations of plaintext-related scrambling once, diffusion twice and matrix rotating of 180 degrees four times. The length of secret key in the system is 64d where d is a positive integer. The proposed system can fight against the chosen/known plaintext attacks due to the using of plaintext-related scrambling. The simulate results and comparison analysis show that the proposed system has many merits such as high encryption/decryption speed, large key space, strong key sensitivity, strong plaintext sensitivity, strong cipher-text sensitivity, good statistical properties of cipher images, and large cipher-text information entropy. So the proposed system can be applied to actual communications.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks go to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This work was fully supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61562035), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20161BAB202058), and the Science and Technology Project of Education Department of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. GJJ160426).

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Zhang, Y., Tang, Y. A plaintext-related image encryption algorithm based on chaos. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 6647–6669 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4577-1

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