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Cryptanalysis of Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Pixel Shuffling and Chaotic S-box Transformation

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Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC 2014)

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Abstract

Recently Hussain et al. proposed an image encryption algorithm which has three independent phases: (1) total pixel shuffling performed, in spatial domain, with permutation sequences extracted from chaotic skew tent map, (2) diffusion carried out using random codes generated from same chaotic map, and (3) extra confusion induced with substitution-box transformation. Though, the encryption algorithm achieves optimal scores of NPCR/UACI and exhibits great encryption strength. But, a careful analysis unveils its inherent security flaws, leaving it vulnerable to cryptographic attack. In this paper, we analyze its security weaknesses and proposed a chosen plaintext-attack with inverse S-box to break the algorithm completely. It is shown that the plain-image can be recovered successfully without knowing the secret key. The computer simulation of attack highlights the ineptness of Hussain et al. algorithm and shows that it is not commendable to deploy it for practical encryption of digital images.

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

    Pankaj Kumar Sharma & Musheer Ahmad

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Integral University, Lucknow, 226026, India

    Parvez Mahmood Khan

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  1. Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, Grao de Gandia, 46033, Vaencia, Spain

    Jaime Lloret Mauri

  2. Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Technopark Campus, 695581, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Southern University, 8045, 30460, Statesboro, Georgia, USA

    Danda B. Rawat

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Sharma, P.K., Ahmad, M., Khan, P.M. (2014). Cryptanalysis of Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Pixel Shuffling and Chaotic S-box Transformation. In: Mauri, J.L., Thampi, S.M., Rawat, D.B., Jin, D. (eds) Security in Computing and Communications. SSCC 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44966-0_16

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