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Exploiting plaintext-related mechanism for secure color image encryption

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Nowadays, many image cryptosystems have been cracked by chosen-plaintext attacks, for they are not highly sensitive to plain image. To solve this problem, we introduce a plaintext-related mechanism for secure color image encryption, and it is established in the generation and selection of chaotic sequences, permutation and diffusion. In the proposed image cryptosystem, the architecture of permutation and diffusion is adopted. Firstly, plaintext-related Latin-square-based block permutation is proposed to randomly shuffle pixels of the color plain image, diffusion method dependent on the plaintext and scrambled image is further given to modify pixels of permutated image, and finally cipher image is gotten. The chaotic sequence for diffusing the current pixel is dynamically generated according to the plain image and scrambled image, and diffusion operations of red, green and blue components of color plain image affect each other. Besides, chaotic sequences used in encryption are produced by new one-dimensional chaotic systems and dynamically selected, and initial values of chaotic systems are computed by plain image and external keys. Experimental results and security analyses demonstrate that our image encryption has large key space and high security level, and it can be applied for the secure communication of image information.

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Acknowledgements

All the authors are deeply grateful to the editors for smooth and fast handling of the manuscript. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions to improve the quality of this paper. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41571417, U1604145, 61802111, 61872125, 61871175), National Science Foundation of the United States (Grant Nos. CNS-1253424 and ECCS-1202225), Science and Technology Foundation of Henan Province of China (Grant Nos. 182102210027, 182102410051), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2018T110723, 2016M602235), Key Scientific Research Projects for Colleges and Universities of Henan Province (Grant No. 19A413001), CERNET NGI Technology Innovation Project (Grant No. NGII20170902) and the Research Foundation of Henan University (Grant No. xxjc20140006).

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  1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Xiuli Chai & Xiaoyu Zheng

  2. School of Software, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Zhihua Gan

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    Yiran Chen

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Chai, X., Zheng, X., Gan, Z. et al. Exploiting plaintext-related mechanism for secure color image encryption. Neural Comput & Applic 32, 8065–8088 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-019-04312-8

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