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Design of tri-layer image encryption scheme using Calendar Month Vowel Count (CMVC) approach

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Along with the growth of the internet, multimedia communication has also increased rapidly over the years. The digital image is an essential part of multimedia technology; thus, secure image transmission is essential to maintain privacy. To achieve privacy, several image encryption schemes have been developed. Inspired by those techniques, a new tri-layer image encryption algorithm based on CMVC (Calendar Month Vowel Count) coding logic has been proposed. The key used in this algorithm is generated based on the number of vowels in each month of the year. Using this concept, the scheme has ended up with a 24-bit key. This key has been used to encrypt the image using three-level substitution, scrambling, and cyclic shift. Further, the Chen attractor has been utilized to induce more randomness in the pixel values. The encryption technique proposed is much more robust, which resist unauthorized users from decrypting the image. This encryption technique offers good resistance to ciphertext attacks, which was a significant disadvantage in DNA coding. Also, this proposed scheme yields an average entropy of 7.99 and a near-zero correlation. It has a maximum keyspace of 3(33.24915 × 10168) to resist the brute force attack.

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The authors thank the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, for the FIST funding (SR/FST/ET-I/2018/221(C). Furthermore, the authors extend their sincere thanks to Palem Anusha, Software Engineer, Wipro Ltd., for her initial technical support. Also, they wish to thank the Intrusion Detection Lab at the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, for providing infrastructural support to carry out this research work.

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Manikandan, C., Gamana, A., Sridevi, A. et al. Design of tri-layer image encryption scheme using Calendar Month Vowel Count (CMVC) approach. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 10337–10371 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-11930-3

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