Privacy-Preserving Random Permutation of Image Pixels Enciphered Model from Cyber Attacks for Covert Operations

Abstract

We all are aware from the fact that 21^st century is the era of space technology, IoT (Internet of Thing), advanced robotics and extreme weaponry, each and every country of the world wishes to progress at a rapid rate. This intention gives rise to a new situation where own national interest becomes the top priority, so less developed countries are destabilised by adopting policies like cyber-attacks & state sponsored terrorism. Many countries are nowadays involved in such activities, so the challenges become more tenacious for the intelligence agencies to tackle such sought of the problem. Problem-related to data theft while transmission, pre-planned hacking, cyber attacks etc., are some common modes of data robbery. The data that is transmitted can be in form of images, documents, codes, etc. Here we are proposing an image encipher scheme based on strong encryption and random permutation of image pixels for intelligence agencies by which even if any particular information gets leaked out, the probability of extracting useful information from the hacked data is not possible for an unknown hacker, organization or any country.