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A double color image encryption scheme based on three-dimensional brownian motion

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Image encryption is an efficient technique for image protection. This paper presents a double color image encryption (DCIE) scheme based on three-dimensional (3D) Brownian motion. The architecture of diffusion, confusion and diffusion is adopted. The proposed algorithm firstly decomposes two color plain images into R, G, B components and bit planes, then conducts XOR operation between every bit plane and a key bit plane generated from carrier images; next, arranges all the bit planes into a 3D bit matrix, performs block-in 3D Brownian motion confusion and block confusion on it, which can permute the elements across bit planes and across plain images; finally, a subsequent diffusion process is utilized to improve the encryption effect. Simulation results and performance analyses illustrate that the proposed encryption scheme can simultaneously encrypt two color images into noise-like ones that have strong ability of resisting various known attacks.

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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 No. 41571417, U1604145 and U1404618), National Science Foundation of the United States (Grant No. CNS-1253424 and ECCS-1202225), Science and Technology Foundation of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 182102210027, 182102210238, and 172102210186), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M602235 and 2015M582182) and the Research Foundation of Henan University (Grant No. xxjc20140006).

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

    Zhihua Gan

  2. Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Xiuli Chai & Miaohui Zhang

  3. Research Department, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Yang Lu

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Gan, Z., Chai, X., Zhang, M. et al. A double color image encryption scheme based on three-dimensional brownian motion. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 27919–27953 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5974-9

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