A new one-dimensional chaotic map and its application in a novel permutation-less image encryption scheme

摘要

In this paper, we propose a new real one-dimensional cosine fractional (1-DCF) chaotic map. Several chaos-theory analysis tests demonstrate that the proposed map has many good cryptography properties, such as a highly chaotic behavior, a large chaotic range, an infinite number of unstable fixed points, and a widely superior sensitivity to the initial conditions than most of the low-dimensional chaotic maps. Regarding these attractive features, we use the 1-DCF map to design a novel fast image encryption scheme for real-time image processing. Unlike most of the existing encryption schemes, we adopt a permutation-less architecture to increase the encryption speed. Regardless of the permutation phase absence, a high-security level is obtained by using a substitution process with a high sensitivity to the plain image. Moreover, we replace the natural row-order encryption with a more secure random-like encryption order generated from the secret key. Experimentation and simulations show that the new scheme is better than many recently proposed encryption schemes in both security and rapidity.