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TPE-C: Thumbnail-preserving encryption based on chaotic system

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Expandable storage capacity and support for cross-device access have led to an increasing number of people uploading images to the cloud. However, currently mainstream cloud service providers either pursue extreme privacy or extreme usability for images storage, which is obviously not ideal. In order to balance the privacy and usability of images in the cloud, we take advantage of the good dynamic properties of chaotic systems and propose a thumbnail-preserving scheme based on chaotic systems (TPE–C). The core of TPE-C is to design a digital exchange rule based on decimal pixel values, and an effective method based on linear feedback and parameter perturbation with previous variables to improve the dynamics of chaotic systems. Various experimental results show that the performance of logistic map has been effectively improved, and compared with other TPE schemes, TPE-C has the advantages of lossless decryption, low time complexity, and the same thumbnail, which is an ideal TPE scheme.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (62262039); Outstanding Youth Foundation of Jiangxi Province (20212ACB212006); Key Project of Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (20232ACB202009).

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Zhu, Z., Liu, L. TPE-C: Thumbnail-preserving encryption based on chaotic system. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 40995–41013 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17117-8

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