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A fast chaos-based image encryption scheme with a novel plain image-related swapping block permutation and block diffusion

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In the paper, a fast image encryption scheme with block permutation and block diffusion is introduced. Considering the increasing size of the image, encryption process is manipulated by block, and the encryption of every block image consists of block permutation and block diffusion. A novel plain image-related swapping block permutation strategy is presented, the swapping operation of the block image is controlled by the random chaotic sequences, and the initial value and parameter of the chaotic system are produced by SHA 256 hash value of the plain image, thus our algorithm is highly sensitive to changes of the plain image. Diffusion method within the block image (DMWBI) and diffusion method between two block images (DMBTBI) are presented to effectively eliminate the correlation of adjacent pixels in the plain image. The correlated chaos is employed to enhance the relationship of chaos, and take fully use of chaotic maps. One-dimensional Logistic-Sine System (LSS) is used to generate pseudo-random sequences during the whole encryption process. Experiment results and security analysis have proved the proposed image encryption algorithm is secure and effective.

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All the authors are deeply grateful to the editors for careful 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. 61203094 and 61305042), Science and Technology Foundation of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 152102210048), Foundation and Frontier Project of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 162300410196), Natural Science Foundation of Educational Committee of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 14A413015), the Research Foundation of Henan University (Grant No. xxjc20140006).

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    Xiuli Chai & Miaohui Zhang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

    Xiuli Chai

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

    Zhihua Gan

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Chai, X., Gan, Z. & Zhang, M. A fast chaos-based image encryption scheme with a novel plain image-related swapping block permutation and block diffusion. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 15561–15585 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3858-4

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