Cryptanalysis and improvement of the hyper-chaotic image encryption scheme based on DNA encoding and scrambling
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In recent years, hybrid chaotic image encryption schemes combined with the DNA encryption technology or other technologies have become a research focus of many researchers. However, some researchers neglect security analyses of proposed schemes under the chosen plaintext attack, therefore leaving security vulnerabilities. Considering this situation, we carefully investigate a recently reported hyper-chaotic image encryption scheme using the DNA encryption technology. In this paper, we first point out some issues identified in the reported scheme and make some necessary improvements, and then cryptanalyze it and propose a chosen plaintext attack algorithm. With the proposed attack algorithm, theoretical analyses and test results show that it can completely recover plain images without knowing any secure key related information. Finally, some suggestions for improving the security and practicability of the reported hyper-chaotic image encryption scheme are presented.
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In 2018, improvement methods were proposed to fix reported security defects in a number of papers on image cryptanalysis.
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- Authors
- Feng, W., & He, Y.-G.
- Affiliations
- Hefei University of Technology (CN)
- ORCID
- Venue
- IEEE Photonics Journal
- Published
- 2018-12
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1-15
- ISSN
- 1943-0647 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-0655
- OpenAlex
- W2903069144
- Cited by
- 60
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 4.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE photonics journal (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51577046)
- State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (51637004)
- National key research and development plan “important scientific instruments and equipment development” (2016YFF0102200)
- Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Foundation of China (1301022036)
- 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 encoding, cryptanalysis, chosen-plaintext attack
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