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A new image encryption technique combining Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem with Hill Cipher
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Image encryption is rapidly increased recently by the increasing use of the internet and communication media. Sharing important images over unsecured channels is liable for attacking and stealing. Encryption techniques are the suitable methods to protect images from attacks. Hill cipher algorithm is one of the symmetric techniques, it has a simple structure and fast computations, but weak security because sender and receiver need to use and share the same private key within a non-secure channels. A new image encryption technique that combines Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem with Hill Cipher (ECCHC) has been proposed in this paper to convert Hill cipher from symmetric technique to asymmetric one and increase its security and efficiency and resist the hackers. Self-invertible key matrix is used to generate encryption and decryption secret key. So, no need to find the inverse key matrix in the decryption process. A secret key matrix with dimensions 4 × 4 will be used as an example in this study. Entropy, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Unified Average Changing Intensity (UACI) will be used to assess the grayscale image encryption efficiency and compare the encrypted image with the original image to evaluate the performance of the proposed encryption technique.
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“Second, classical hybrid cryptosystems [32][33][34][35][36][37][38] consist of a combination of a symmetric image cypher and asymmetric key transport, which is either ElGamal, ECC, Hill cypher variants or RSA; all of which are the weakest links broken in polynomial time by Shor's algorithm.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dawahdeh, Z. E., Yaakob, S. N., & Razif bin Othman, R.
- Affiliations
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis (MY)
- Corresponding author
- Dawahdeh, Ziad E.
- Venue
- Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
- Published
- 2018-07
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 349-355
- ISSN
- 1319-1578 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2730914431
- Cited by
- 112
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 8
- FWCI
- 3.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- 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 › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptographic Implementations and Security
- Keywords
- image encryption, elliptic curve cryptography, Hill cipher, hybrid encryption, public-key cryptography, grayscale images, cryptographic key generation, entropy (information theory), PSNR, UACI
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