In the medical sector, the digital image is multimedia data that contain secret information. However, designing an efficient secure cryptosystem to protect the confidential images in sharing is a challenge. In this work, we propose an improved chaos-based cryptosystem to encrypt and decrypt rapidly secret medical images. A complex chaos-based PRNG is suggested to generate a high-quality key that presents high randomness behaviour, high entropy, and high complexity. An improved architecture is proposed to encrypt the secret image that is based on permutation, substitution, and diffusion properties. In the first step, the image’s pixels are randomly permuted through a matrix generated using the PRNG. Next, pixel’s bits are permuted using an internal condition. After that, the pixels are substituted using two different S-boxes with an internal condition. In the final step, the image is diffused by XORing pixels with the key stream generated by the PRNG in order to acquire an encrypted image. R rounds of encryption can be performed in a loop to increase the complexity. The cryptosystem is evaluated in depth by his application on several medical images with different types, contents, and sizes. The obtained simulation results demonstrate that the system enables high-level security and performance. The information entropy of the encrypted image has achieved an average of 7.9998 which is the most important feature of randomness. The algorithm can take full advantage of parallelism and pipeline execution in hardware implementation to meet real-time requirements. The PRNG was tested by NIST 800-22 test suit, which indicates that it is suitable for secure image encryption. It provides a large key space of 2192 which resists the brute-force attack. However, the cryptosystem is appropriate for medical image securing.
In this paper we propose a novel and efficient hardware implementation of an image watermarking system based on the Haar Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). DWT is used in image watermarking to hide secret pieces of information into a digital content with a good robustness. The main advantage of Haar DWT is the frequencies separation into four subbands (LL, LH, HL, and HH) which can be treated independently. This permits ensuring a better compromise between robustness and visibility factors. A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that is based on a very large scale integration architecture of the watermarking algorithm is developed to accelerate media authentication. A hardware cosimulation strategy using the Matlab-Xilinx system generator (XSG) was applied to prove the validity of the suggested implementation. The hardware cosimulation results show the effectiveness of the developed architecture in terms of visibility and robustness against several attacks. The proposed hardware system presents also a high performance in terms of the operating speed.
In this paper, we propose an efficient cryptosystem for digital image encryption and authentication. The cryptosystem is a hybrid scheme that uses symmetric and asymmetric approaches. The first one is used to encrypt the host image by utilizing a chaos-based key generator. The second one is used to encrypt the initial secret key and the owner’s signature that permit authentication. The algorithm is evaluated and validated by its application on several types of standard images and tools such as the statistical analysis, the key, and the performance analysis. The results indicate that the proposed cryptosystem provides high performance and enhanced security. The NIST 800-22 is used for testing the pseudorandom numbers generation (PRNG). The obtained simulation results are better than those cited in the recent works in terms of execution time and security level and low computational complexity.
Securing medical images is a great challenge to protect medical privacy. An image encryption model founded on a complex chaos-based Pseudorandom Number Generator (PRNG) and Modified Advanced Encryption Standard (MAES) is put forward in this paper. Our work consists of the following three main points. First, we propose the use of a complex PRNG based on two different chaotic systems which are the 2D Logistic map in a complex set and Henon’s system in the key generation procedure. Second, in the MAES 128 bits, the subbytes’ operation is performed using four different S-boxes for more complexity. Third, both shift-rows’ and mix-columns’ transformations are eliminated and replaced with a random permutation method which increases the complexity. More importantly, only four rounds of encryption are performed in a loop that reduces significantly the execution time. The overall system is implemented on the Altera Cyclone III board, which is completed with an SD card interface for medical image storage and a VGA interface for image display. The HPS software runs on μClinux and is used to control the FPGA encryption-decryption algorithm and image transmission. Experimental findings prove that the propounded map used has a keyspace sufficiently large and the proposed image encryption algorithm augments the entropy of the ciphered image compared to the AES standard and reduces the complexity time by 97%. The power consumption of the system is 136.87 mw and the throughput is 1.34 Gbit/s. The proposed technique is compared to recent image cryptosystems including hardware performances and different security analysis properties, such as randomness, sensitivity, and correlation of the encrypted images and results prove that our cryptographic algorithm is faster, more efficient, and can resist any kind of attacks.
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