A novel image cipher based on mixed transformed logistic maps

In this paper, a novel secure cryptosystem is proposed for direct encryption of color images, based on transformed logistic maps. The proposed cipher provides good confusion and diffusion properties that ensures extremely high security due to the mixing of colors pixels. The encryption scheme makes use of six odd secret keys and chaotic keys for each operation. The operations include initial permutation of all pixels with six odd keys, nonlinear diffusion using first chaotic key, xoring the second chaotic key with resultant values and zig-zag diffusion with third chaotic key. The proposed scheme supports key sizes ranging from 192 to 400 bits. The security and performance of the proposed image encryption technique have been analysed thoroughly using statistical analysis, key sensitivity analysis, differential analysis, key space analysis, entropy analysis and performance analysis. Results of the various types of analyses are showing that the proposed image encryption technique is more secure and fast and hence suitable for the real-time applications.