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An Experimental Comparison of Chaotic and Non-chaotic Image Encryption Schemes

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During last few years, transmission of digital multimedia data (images, audios and videos) over Internet, wireless cell phones, television broadcasting etc., has been significantly evolved. The provision of security to store and transmit data with confidentiality, integrity, and authentication for multimedia data over wireless medium is attaining importance these days. Over a few decades, a number of image encryption schemes have been implemented, each with various features, pros and cons. So there is a need to carry out security analysis of these schemes through some standard parameters. In this paper, an effort is being made for comparison of traditional encryption algorithms via some security parameters rather than using just visual inspection. Through these security parameters, one can determine a better and highly secure image encryption scheme. Comparative analysis of Advanced Encryption Standard, Compression Friendly Encryption Scheme, Chaotically Coupled Chaotic Map Encryption Scheme and a Bernoulli Map Based Encryption Scheme are done. Results are finally compiled to conclude the optimum scheme to be used feasibly with high security level.

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It was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2014R1A1A2054174) and the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the Global IT Talent support program (NIPA-2014-H0905-14-1004) supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency).

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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Graduate School, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

    Jawad Ahmad

  2. Department of Computer and Information Communication Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

    Seong Oun Hwang

  3. School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Arshad Ali

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Ahmad, J., Hwang, S.O. & Ali, A. An Experimental Comparison of Chaotic and Non-chaotic Image Encryption Schemes. Wireless Pers Commun 84, 901–918 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2667-9

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