978-1-6654-6122-1/22/$31.00 ©2022 IEEE Using Cycling 3D Chaotic Map and DNA Sequences for Introducing a Novel Algorithm for Color Image Encryption* Mahdi Sahlabadi Research Centre for Cyber Security Faculty of Information Science and Technology University Kebangsaan Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia sahlabadi2002@gmail.com Ravie Chandren Muniyandi Research Centre for Cyber Security Morteza Saberikamarposhti Department of Computer Engineering Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch Tehran, Iran msaberi@azad.ac.ir Zarina Shukur Center for Cyber Security (CYBER) Faculty of Information Science and Technology University Kebangsaan Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia ravie@ukm.edu.my Faculty of Information Science and Technology University Kebangsaan Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia zarinashukur@ukm.edu.my Abstract—Today, social communication through the Internet has become more popular and has become a crucial part of our daily life. Naturally, sending and receiving various data through the Internet has also grown a lot. Keeping important data secure in transit has become a challenge for individuals and even organizations. Therefore, the trinity of confidentiality, integrity, and availability will be essential, and encryption will definitely be one of the best solutions to this problem. Of course, for image data, it will not be possible to use conventional encryption methods for various reasons, such as the redundancy of image data, the strong correlation of adjacent pixels, and the large volume of image data. Therefore, special methods were developed for image encryption. Among the prevalent methods for image encryption is the use of DNA sequences as well as chaos signals. In this paper, a cycling 3D chaotic map and DNA sequences are used to present a new method for color image encryption. Several experimental analyses were performed on the proposed method, and the results proved that the presented method is secure and efficient. Index Terms—Color Image Encryption, DNA Sequences, Cy- cling 3D Chaotic Map, Cryptography I. INTRODUCTION Today, social communication through the Internet has be- come more popular and has become a very important part of our daily life. Naturally, sending and receiving various data through the Internet has also grown a lot. Keeping important data secure in transit has become a challenge for individuals and even organizations. [1], [9] Therefore, the trinity of confidentiality, integrity and availability will be very important and encryption will definitely be one of the best solutions to this problem. Of course, for image data, it will not be possible to use conventional encryption methods for various reasons, such as the redundancy of image data, the strong correlation of adjacent pixels, and the large volume of image data. Therefore, special methods were developed for image encryption. Among the very common methods for image encryption is the use of DNA sequences as well as chaos signals. [2], [3] A new substitution system is introduced in [4] to gain an efficient algorithm for encryption and authentication based on elliptic curve cryptography. To widening key space, several sub-keys are used to embedding diffusion and confusion. Reported analysis show the computationally performance of the proposed algorithm which lead to resistance against several types of cryptanalysis and also attacks on image encryption. In [5], a zigzag method has been used to combine the gen- erated sequences of variables to make the necessary changes before using them in the encryption algorithm. In this method, all the rules and join operations in DNA coding are used in the encryption steps. Furthermore, the chaotic permutation is applied on DNA strand. Performed evaluation analysis show the well statistical features of cipher images and its high security. A new method for color image encryption is proposed in [6], in which a 6D chaos map, hash algorithm, and dynamic DNA coding are used to expand the key space while being sensitive to the contents of plain images, against various types of attacks. It is known to have good resistance. The results of various analyzes performed on this method show the high performance of the proposed method. In this paper, a cycling 3D chaotic map and DNA sequences are used to present a new method for color image encryption. In the following, the preliminary studies will be described first. Then, the proposed method will be fully presented and at the end, its security will be tested against different attack methods. 2022 International Conference on Cyber Resilience (ICCR) | 978-1-6654-6122-1/22/$31.00 ©2022 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICCR56254.2022.9995857 Authorized licensed use limited to: UNIVERSITY TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA. Downloaded on August 15,2023 at 08:19:09 UTC from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply.