Generalized multi-channel scheme for secure image encryption
Abstract The ability of metamaterials to manipulate optical waves in both the spatial and spectral domains has provided new opportunities for image encoding. Combined with the recent advances in hyperspectral imaging, this suggests exciting new possibilities for the development of secure communicati...
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Nature Portfolio
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/3646c3cb90d6432ead217fac25f88f1b |
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| Sumario: | Abstract The ability of metamaterials to manipulate optical waves in both the spatial and spectral domains has provided new opportunities for image encoding. Combined with the recent advances in hyperspectral imaging, this suggests exciting new possibilities for the development of secure communication systems. While traditional image encryption approaches perform a 1-to-1 transformation on a plain image to form a cipher image, we propose a 1-to-n transformation scheme. Plain image data is dispersed across n seemingly random cipher images, each transmitted on a separate spectral channel. We show that the size of our key space increases as a double exponential with the number of channels used, ensuring security against both brute-force attacks and more sophisticated attacks based on statistical sampling. Moreover, our multichannel scheme can be cascaded with a traditional 1-to-1 transformation scheme, effectively squaring the size of the key space. Our results suggest exciting new possibilities for secure transmission in multi-wavelength imaging channels. |
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