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Differential attack on a hyper-chaos-based image cryptosystem with a classic bi-modular architecture

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In recent years, hyper-chaos systems have been widely used in image cipher design. So far, a number of hyper-chaos-based image ciphers have been cryptanalyzed, but many others have not been effectively attacked like an image cipher with a classic bi-modular architecture of permutation and diffusion. This study cryptanalyzes this cipher. It is demonstrated that the cipher can be broken by differential attack with multiple pairs of special plain/cipher images.

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Acknowledgments

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61502399, 61462032, 61602158, 61672038, U1536204) and Research Foundation of the Education Department of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. GJJ150462).

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  1. School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, 330013, China

    Wenying Wen

  2. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Circuits and Intelligent Information Processing, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Yushu Zhang

  3. School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Moting Su

  4. College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Rui Zhang

  5. School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, China

    Jun-xin Chen

  6. College of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, China

    Ming Li

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Wen, W., Zhang, Y., Su, M. et al. Differential attack on a hyper-chaos-based image cryptosystem with a classic bi-modular architecture. Nonlinear Dyn 87, 383–390 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-016-3049-x

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