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Application of chaotic Josephus scrambling and RNA computing in image encryption

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This article describes the application of chaotic Josephus scrambling and RNA computing in image encryption. The algorithm uses the classical ‘scrambling-diffusion’ process, and the pseudo-random sequences used in each stage are generated by the hyper-chaotic Lorenz system. Firstly, during the scrambling phase, the randomness of the traditional Josephus traversal sequence is improved by using chaotic mapping, which makes the image scrambling effect better. Then during the diffusion phase, the gray value of the pixel is modified by using RNA modular operation and random substitution of RNA codons. The research results prove the feasibility of the encryption system.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 61672124), the Password Theory Project of the 13th Five-Year Plan National Cryptography Development Fund (No: MMJJ20170203), Liaoning Province Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents Program Project (No: XLYC1802013), Key R&D Projects of Liaoning Province (No: 2019020105-JH2/103), Jinan City ‘20 universities’ Funding Projects Introducing Innovation Team Program (No: 2019GXRC031).

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Wang, X., Liu, L. Application of chaotic Josephus scrambling and RNA computing in image encryption. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 23337–23358 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10209-9

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