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Image encryption

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Yicong ZhouAuthors Info & Claims

Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science, Intelligent Systems, Applications: An International Journal, Volume 324, Issue C

Pages 197 - 207

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2015.06.049

Published: 10 December 2015 Publication History

Abstract

To protect image contents, most existing encryption algorithms are designed to transform an original image into a texture-like or noise-like image which is, however, an obvious visual sign indicating the presence of an encrypted image and thus results in a significantly large number of attacks. To address this problem, this paper proposes a new image encryption concept to transform an original image into a visually meaningful encrypted one. As an example of the implementation of this concept, we introduce an image encryption system. Simulation results and security analysis demonstrate excellent encryption performance of the proposed concept and system.

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