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Lossless chaotic color image cryptosystem based on DNA encryption and entropy

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Based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) coding and two excellent low-dimensional chaotic systems, a new color image cryptosystem is proposed in this paper. The presented image cryptosystem consists of four processes: key streams generation process, DNA sequences confusion process, DNA sequences diffusion process and pixel-level diffusion process. In the first stage, two simple improved chaotic systems and the information entropy of the plain-image are together employed to generate the pseudorandom key streams. Then, the original image is converted into the DNA sequence matrices by the DNA encoding rules, and the binary key streams are used to permute the DNA matrices. The third process performs a row and column diffusion processes on the scrambled DNA matrices by the key streams and DNA XOR operation. Finally, the DNA matrices are transformed into the encrypted image via the DNA decoding rules, and a ciphertext diffusion in crisscross pattern is further adopted to strengthen the security and sensitivity of the cryptosystem. Thus, the resulting cipher-image is obtained. Experimental results and security analysis have demonstrated the excellent performance of our proposed algorithm in image encryption.

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Acknowledgements

This research was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 61004006 and 61203094), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant Nos 2013M530181 and 2015T80396), Program for Science and Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province, China (Grant No 14HASTIT042), the Foundation for University Young Key Teacher Program of Henan Province, China (Grant No 2011GGJS-025), Shanghai Postdoctoral Scientific Program (Grant No 13R21410600).

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  1. College of Software, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Xiangjun Wu

  2. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Kunshu Wang

  3. Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Xingyuan Wang

  4. Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Xiangjun Wu & Haibin Kan

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Wu, X., Wang, K., Wang, X. et al. Lossless chaotic color image cryptosystem based on DNA encryption and entropy. Nonlinear Dyn 90, 855–875 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-017-3698-4

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