Performance comparison between Chaos and quantum-chaos based image encryption techniques

• Published in: Multimedia tools and applications 2021-10, Vol.80 (24), p.33213-33255
• Main Authors: Kumari, Manju, Gupta, Shailender
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Complexity; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Cryptography; Data Structures and Information Theory; Data transmission; Digital imaging; Encryption; Internet service providers; Multimedia Information Systems; Quantum mechanics; Randomness; Scrambling (communication); Security; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Uncertainty principles
• ISSN: 1380-7501; 1573-7721
• DOI: 10.1007/s11042-021-11178-3

Today’s digital era has undertaken most of the responsibilities of public and private sectors, not only the industries or big organizations dependent on the internet but individual’s household needs also lying on it. To make the data transmission/reception confidential and secure for both internet users and internet service providers, a large number of researches have been done in this field. It has proved that cryptography is the best solution for solving this purpose. Mostly, digital images are continuously transferring on the network rather than texts. Enciphering a digital image is a much bulkier and a complex task. It has been evident from many types of research that chaotic logistic map-based equations provide a great level of randomness. Hence Chaotic logistic maps-based image encryption techniques (also called chaos techniques) were implemented to obtain highly random cipher images. On the other hand, time consumption must be as low as it can be possible to sustain real-time communication. Presently, the advanced encryption schemes based on quantum technology have enhanced efficiency and security because of having a large key-space and less time complexity along with randomness. The quantum-chaos based encryption is done by utilizing uncertainty principles of quantum mechanics on logistic maps. This paper is an effort to compare chaos and quantum chaos-based image encryption schemes. MATLAB 2016a software is used for the execution and the comparison is made based on various security attack analyses. Based on the study and experimental results, the quantum chaos techniques used for bit plane scrambling provides better results in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and trustworthy that can be adopted for highly secured image encryption.