Cryptanalysis of a Chaotic Key based Image Encryption Scheme
This work exposes a critical vulnerability in a specific image encryption method, which is incremental as it targets a recent scheme rather than introducing new security measures.
The paper proposes a chosen ciphertext attack on a recently proposed chaos-based image encryption scheme, demonstrating that the cryptosystem can be completely broken using only two plaintext-ciphertext pairs without knowledge of the key.
Security of multimedia data is a major concern due to its widespread transmission over various communication channels. Hence design and study of good image encryption schemes has become a major research topic. During the last few decades, there has been a increasing in chaos-based cryptography. This paper proposes an attack on a recently proposed chaos based image encryption scheme. The cryptosystem under study proceed by first shuffling the original image to disturb the arrangement of pixels by applying a chaotic map several times. Second, a keystream is generated using Chen's chaotic system to mix it with the shuffled pixels to finally obtain the cipher image. A chosen ciphertext attack can be done to recover the system without any knowledge of the key. It simply demands two pairs of plaintext-ciphertext to completely break the cryptosystem.