Cryptanalysis of an image encryption scheme based on a compound chaotic sequence

  • Authors:
  • Chengqing Li;Shujun Li;Guanrong Chen;Wolfgang A. Halang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraíe 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany;Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China;FernUniversität in Hagen, Lehrstuhl für Informationstechnik, 58084 Hagen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, an image encryption scheme based on a compound chaotic sequence was proposed. In this paper, the security of the scheme is studied and the following problems are found: (1) a differential chosen-plaintext attack can break the scheme with only three chosen plain-images; (2) there is a number of weak keys and some equivalent keys for encryption; (3) the scheme is not sensitive to the changes of plain-images; and (4) the compound chaotic sequence does not work as a good random number source.