Secure Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Hyperchaos and Dynamic DNA Coding

• Published in: Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 7; p. 772
• Main Authors: Zhu, Shuqin, Zhu, Congxu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 15.07.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Chaos theory; chosen-plaintext attack; Communication; Cryptography; Decoding; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Diffusion; DNA; dynamic DNA coding; Eigenvalues; Encryption; Equilibrium; five dimensional hyperchaos; image encryption; Multimedia communications; Scrambling (communication); scrambling-diffusion; five dimensional hyperchaos; chosen-plaintext attack; dynamic DNA coding; image encryption; scrambling-diffusion
• ISSN: 1099-4300; 1099-4300
• DOI: 10.3390/e22070772

In this paper, we construct a five dimensional continuous hyperchaotic system and propose an image encryption scheme based on the hyperchaotic system, which adopts DNA dynamic coding mechanism and classical scrambling diffusion encryption structure. In the diffusion stage, two rounds of diffusion are adopted and the rules of DNA encoding (DNA decoding) are dynamically changed according to the pixel value of the plaintext image, that is, the rules of DNA encoding (DNA decoding) used to encrypt different images are different, which makes the algorithm can resist chosen-plaintext attack. The encryption (decryption) key is only the initial value of the chaotic system, which overcomes the difficulty of key management in the “one time pad” encryption system. The experimental results and security analysis show that the algorithm has some advantages of large key space, no obvious statistical characteristics of ciphertext, sensitivity to plaintext and key and able to resist differential attacks and chosen plaintext attack. It has good application prospects.