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Cryptanalysis of Chaos Based Secure Satellite Imagery Cryptosystem

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Contemporary Computing (IC3 2011)

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Recently Usama et al. proposed a chaos-based satellite image cryptosystem, which employed multiple one-dimensional chaotic maps in novel manner to enhance the robustness, security and efficiency of sensitive satellite imagery. It is very efficient in terms of encryption time. The authors of the cryptosystem under study claimed that it has high level of security and can be applied to transmit confidential multimedia images over Internet/shared network. Unfortunately, the security analysis of the cryptosystem reveals that it has serious security flaws. Consequently, it is susceptible to a number of attacks. In this paper, the cryptanalysis of original cryptosystem is presented and it is shown that the attacker can recovers the plain-image from given cipher-image under three types of classical cryptographic attacks without knowing the secret key. The simulation results of cryptanalysis demonstrate that the cryptosystem highly lacks security and cannot be utilized for the protection of confidential/sensitive multimedia images such as the satellite imagery.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India

    Musheer Ahmad

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  1. Iowa State University and IIT Bombay, India, 329 Durham, Ames, IA 5001, Iowa, USA

    Srinivas Aluru

  2. Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, 700 108, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

  3. The Ohio State University, 3190 Graves Hall, 333 W 10th Ave, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Umit V. Catalyurek

  4. Department of Computing Science, Chalmers University, Rännvagen 6B, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

    Devdatt P. Dubhashi

  5. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, 329 Durham, IA 50011, Ames, USA

    Phillip H. Jones

  6. TASSL, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Brett Road, NJ 08854-8058, Piscataway, USA

    Manish Parashar

  7. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, N4-02a-32 Nanyang Ave, 639798, Singapore

    Bertil Schmidt

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Ahmad, M. (2011). Cryptanalysis of Chaos Based Secure Satellite Imagery Cryptosystem. In: Aluru, S., et al. Contemporary Computing. IC3 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22606-9_12

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