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Chaos triggered image encryption - a reconfigurable security solution

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Recently, diverse types of chaotic image encryption algorithms have been explored to meet the high demands in realizing secured real time image sharing applications. In this context, to achieve high sensitivity and superior key space, a multiple chaotic map based image encryption algorithm has been proposed. The proposed algorithm employs three-stage permutation and diffusion to withstand several attacks and the same is modelled in reconfigurable platform namely Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The comprehensive analysis is done with various parameters to exhibit the robustness of the proposed algorithm and its ability to withstand brute-force, differential and statistical attacks. The synthesized result demonstrates that the reconfigurable hardware architecture takes approximately 0.098 ms for encrypting an image of size 256 × 256. Further the resource utilization and timing analyzer results are reported.

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The authors wish to express their sincere thanks to SASTRA University, Thanjavur for their financial support and extending infrastructural facilities to carry out this work.

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    Balakrishnan Ramalingam, Dhivya Ravichandran, Arun Adhithiya Annadurai, Amirtharajan Rengarajan & John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan

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Ramalingam, B., Ravichandran, D., Annadurai, A.A. et al. Chaos triggered image encryption - a reconfigurable security solution. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 11669–11692 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4811-x

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