“…For instance, DNA coding-based ciphers [1,2], S-box-based ciphers [3], compressive sensing-based ciphers [4,5], wave function-based ciphers [6], etc. Moreover, by virtue of the similitude to pixel matrix of digital image, Sudoku matrix [7] and Latin square [8] have also been utilized in image ciphers. Originating in the late 1990s, chaos theory-based encryption algorithms have developed significantly, and most of them employ a confusion-diffusion structure, which was first proposed by Fridrich [9].…”