An authenticated image encryption scheme based on chaotic maps and memory cellular automata

This paper introduces a new image encryption scheme based on chaotic maps, cellular automata and permutation–diffusion architecture. In the permutation phase, a piecewise linear chaotic map is utilized to confuse the plain-image and in the diffusion phase, we employ the Logistic map as well as a reversible memory cellular automata to obtain an efficient and secure cryptosystem. The proposed method admits advantages such as highly secure diffusion mechanism, computational efficiency and ease of implementation. A novel property of the proposed scheme is its authentication ability which can detect whether the image is tampered during the transmission or not. This is particularly important in applications where image data or part of it contains highly sensitive information. Results of various analyses manifest high security of this new method and its capability for practical image encryption.

► We introduce the concept of employing cellular automata together with chaotic maps in the context of image encryption.
► We propose an image encryption scheme based on chaotic maps and cellular automata.
► The proposed scheme can detect tampering of the image.
► We analyze security as well as the performance of the proposed cryptosystem.