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Quantum Color Image Encryption Algorithm Based on A Hyper-Chaotic System and Quantum Fourier Transform

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To improve the slow processing speed of the classical image encryption algorithms and enhance the security of the private color images, a new quantum color image encryption algorithm based on a hyper-chaotic system is proposed, in which the sequences generated by the Chen’s hyper-chaotic system are scrambled and diffused with three components of the original color image. Sequentially, the quantum Fourier transform is exploited to fulfill the encryption. Numerical simulations show that the presented quantum color image encryption algorithm possesses large key space to resist illegal attacks, sensitive dependence on initial keys, uniform distribution of gray values for the encrypted image and weak correlation between two adjacent pixels in the cipher-image.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61462061 and 61561033), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. 20151BAB207002) and the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrate Administration Technologies for Information Security (Grant No. AGK201602).

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  1. Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China

    Ru-Chao Tan, Qing-Min Zhao & Li-Hua Gong

  2. 14 Base Class, School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Ji’nan, 250100, China

    Tong Lei

  3. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrate Administration Technologies for Information Security, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Li-Hua Gong & Zhi-Hong Zhou

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Tan, RC., Lei, T., Zhao, QM. et al. Quantum Color Image Encryption Algorithm Based on A Hyper-Chaotic System and Quantum Fourier Transform. Int J Theor Phys 55, 5368–5384 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3157-x

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