A novel DNA-based key scrambling technique for image encryption
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Abstract Nowadays, data are the most valuable content in the world. In the age of big data, we are generating quintillions of data daily in the form of text, image, video, etc. Among them, images are highly used in daily communications. Various types of images, e.g., medical images, military images, etc. are highly confidential. But, due to data vulnerabilities, transmitting such images in a secured way is a great challenge. For this reason, researchers proposed different image cryptography algorithms. Recently, biological deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based concepts are getting popular for ensuring image security as well as encryption as they show good performance. However, these DNA-based methods have some limitations, e.g., these are not dynamic and their performance results are far from ideal values. Further, these encryption methods usually involve two steps, confusion and diffusion. Confusion increases huge time complexity and needs to send one or more additional map tables with a cipher to decrypt the message. In this research, we propose a novel and efficient DNA-based key scrambling technique for image encryption that addresses the above limitations. We evaluate our proposed method using 15 different datasets and achieved superior performance scores of entropy, keyspace, cipher pixel correlations, variance of histogram, time complexity and PSNR. The experimental results show that our method can be used for image encryption with a high level of confidentiality.
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The decryption process for DNA encoding-based encryption requires additional DNA rule tables to be transmitted along with the encrypted image.
“Yet the decryption process requires additional DNA rule tables to be transmitted along with the encrypted image [34].”
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The Introduction (page not specified) says that most DNA-based methods discussed use map-based encryption and require an additional table to be sent to the receiver for decoding. It does not identify those tables as DNA rule tables or say that all DNA encoding-based encryption requires them; the Conclusion says the authors' own approach reduces that transmission burden. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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Background
- Authors
- Uddin, M., Jahan, F., Islam, M. K., & Rakib Hassan, M.
- Affiliations
- Bangladesh Agricultural University (BD)
- University of Chittagong (BD)
- Corresponding author
- Uddin, Machbah
- Venue
- Complex & Intelligent Systems
- Published
- 2021-09-13
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3241-3258
- ISSN
- 2198-6053 (ISSN-L)
- 2199-4536
- OpenAlex
- W3201065986
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 4
- FWCI
- 1.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Complex & Intelligent Systems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Government of Bangladesh (311/2020-2021)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Computer Science and Engineering
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
- Keywords
- DNA cryptography, image encryption, confusion and diffusion, image security, key space analysis, pixel correlation, entropy analysis, time complexity
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