Medical image cryptosystem using a new 3-D map implemented in a microcontroller

Medical images make up for more than 25% of global attacks on privacy. Securing them is therefore of utmost importance. Chaos based image encryption is one of the most method suggested in the literature for image security due to their intrinsic characteristic, including ergodicity, aperiodicity, high sensitivity to initials conditions and system parameters. Dynamic systems such as bridge circuit, jerk circuit, Van der Pol circuit, Colpitts oscillator and many other pseudo-random numbers generators have been used in the process of encrypting images. Among them, are the jerk oscillators that have been used with different nonlinearities. In this paper, a new, simple, off-shell component of jerk oscillator (jerk quintic) with an interesting nonlinear function is proposed. Its dynamical behaviors are investigated using classical tools like bifurcation diagrams, Maximum Lyapunov exponent plot, basin of attraction, phase portraits. We showed that the nonlinear function is responsible of complex nonlinear behaviors displayed by the novel circuit, including symmetric/asymmetric bifurcation and coexisting bubbles, multistability just to name a few. The real implementation of the interesting circuit is embedded in a microcontroller verifies these dynamics. As an application of this contribution in multimedia, an encryption algorithm built on a new confusion-diffusion architecture using pseudo random number generated in high chaoticity regime of the new circuit is proposed. The cryptosystem underwent thorough security tests and proved to be fast thanks to the 3D map used, given its complex dynamical behaviors and large chaotic area. This approach yields a robust cipher that underwent thorough security tests better than the one in the literature like average NPCR=99.61, UACI=33.48, key space-sensitivity, entropy=7.9994, average correlation=0.0040. Furthermore, it proved to be robust in terms of noise and data loss in the transmission channel, offering a large key space of 10180 and an entropy close to the standard value, thus rendering the cryptosystem robust against various attacks, especially brute force and exhaustive attacks.