Gyrator wavelet transform based non-linear multiple single channel information fusion and authentication

A novel gyrator wavelet transform based non-linear multiple single channel information fusion and authentication is introduced. In this technique, each user channel is normalized, phase encoded, and modulated by random phase function, and then multiplexed into a single channel user ciphertext. Now, the secret channel of corresponding user is phase encoded, modulated by random phase function, and gyrator transformed, and then multiplexed into a single channel secret ciphertext. The user ciphertext and secret ciphertext are multiplied to get a single channel multiplex image and then inverse gyrator transformed. The resultant spectrum is phase- and amplitude-truncated to obtain the encrypted image and the asymmetric key, respectively. The encrypted image is a single-level 2-D discrete wavelet transformed. The information is decomposed into LL, HL, LH, and HH sub-bands. This process is repeated to obtain three sets of four sub-bands of three different images. Next, the individual sub-band of each encrypted image is fused to get four fused sub-bands. Finally, the four fused sub-bands are inverse single-level 2-D discrete wavelet transformed to obtain final encrypted image. This is the main advantage for the proposed system: using multiple individual decryption keys (authentication key, asymmetric key, secret keys, and sub-band keys) for each user not only expands the key spaces but also supplies non-linear keys to control the system security. Moreover, the orders of gyrator transform provide extra degrees of freedom. The theoretical analysis and numerical simulation results support the proposed method.