A novel image encryption scheme based on spatial chaos map

In recent years, the chaos-based cryptographic algorithms have suggested some new and efficient ways to develop secure image encryption techniques, but the drawbacks of small key space and weak security in one-dimensional chaotic cryptosystems are obvious. In this paper, spatial chaos system are used for high degree security image encryption while its speed is acceptable. The proposed algorithm is described in detail. The basic idea is to encrypt the image in space with spatial chaos map pixel by pixel, and then the pixels are confused in multiple directions of space. Using this method one cycle, the image becomes indistinguishable in space due to inherent properties of spatial chaotic systems. Several experimental results, key sensitivity tests, key space analysis, and statistical analysis show that the approach for image cryptosystems provides an efficient and secure way for real time image encryption and transmission from the cryptographic viewpoint.     

A stream cipher based on a spatiotemporal chaotic system

A stream cipher based on a spatiotemporal chaotic system is proposed. A one-way coupled map lattice consisting of logistic maps is served as the spatiotemporal chaotic system. Multiple keystreams are generated from the coupled map lattice by using simple algebraic computations, and then are used to encrypt plaintext via bitwise XOR. These make the cipher rather simple and efficient. Numerical investigation shows that the cryptographic properties of the generated keystream are satisfactory. The cipher seems to have higher security, higher efficiency and lower computation expense than the stream cipher based on a spatiotemporal chaotic system proposed recently.     

Security and efficiency data sharing scheme for cloud storage

With the adoption and diffusion of data sharing paradigm in cloud storage, there have been increasing demands and concerns for shared data security. Ciphertext Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) is becoming a promising cryptographic solution to the security problem of shared data in cloud storage. However due to key escrow, backward security and inefficiency problems, existing CP-ABE schemes cannot be directly applied to cloud storage system. In this paper, an effective and secure access control scheme for shared data is proposed to solve those problems. The proposed scheme refines the security of existing CP-ABE based schemes. Specifically, key escrow and conclusion problem are addressed by dividing key generation center into several distributed semi-trusted parts. Moreover, secrecy revocation algorithm is proposed to address not only back secrecy but efficient problem in existing CP-ABE based scheme. Furthermore, security and performance analyses indicate that the proposed scheme is both secure and efficient for cloud storage.     

Efficient image or video encryption based on spatiotemporal chaos system

In this paper, an efficient image/video encryption scheme is constructed based on spatiotemporal chaos system. The chaotic lattices are used to generate pseudorandom sequences and then encrypt image blocks one by one. By iterating chaotic maps for certain times, the generated pseudorandom sequences obtain high initial-value sensitivity and good randomness. The pseudorandom-bits in each lattice are used to encrypt the Direct Current coefficient (DC) and the signs of the Alternating Current coefficients (ACs). Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the scheme has good cryptographic security and perceptual security, and it does not affect the compression efficiency apparently. These properties make the scheme a suitable choice for practical applications.     

Pairings for cryptographers

Many research papers in pairing-based cryptography treat pairings as a “black box”. These papers build cryptographic schemes making use of various properties of pairings. If this approach is taken, then it is easy for authors to make invalid assumptions concerning the properties of pairings. The cryptographic schemes developed may not be realizable in practice, or may not be as efficient as the authors assume.The aim of this paper is to outline, in as simple a fashion as possible, the basic choices that are available when using pairings in cryptography. For each choice, the main properties and efficiency issues are summarized. The paper is intended to be of use to non-specialists who are interested in using pairings to design cryptographic schemes.     

An optimal algorithm to assign cryptographic keys in a tree structure for access control

In a computer communication system, there exists a possibility of two or more users collaborating to derive a key to which they are not entitled. Therefore, a method for ensuring the system is necessary. In this paper, we propose an efficient heuristic algorithm for assigning cryptographic keys among a group of users organized in a tree structure. Comparing with the existing assignment schemes, our scheme always produces economic cryptographic keys, which are smaller than the keys generated by the previous work in a tree structure.This work was supported in part by the National Science Council of the Republic of China under the grant NSC 81-0416-E-002-20.     

Pseudo-random number generator based on mixing of three chaotic maps

A secure pseudo-random number generator three-mixer is proposed. The principle of the method consists in mixing three chaotic maps produced from an input initial vector. The algorithm uses permutations whose positions are computed and indexed by a standard chaotic function and a linear congruence. The performance of that scheme is evaluated through statistical analysis. Such a cryptosystem lets appear significant cryptographic qualities for a high security level.     

A novel method of S-box design based on chaotic map and composition method

An efficient algorithm for obtaining random bijective S-boxes based on chaotic maps and composition method is presented. The proposed method is based on compositions of S-boxes from a fixed starting set. The sequence of the indices of starting S-boxes used is obtained by using chaotic maps. The results of performance test show that the S-box presented in this paper has good cryptographic properties. The advantages of the proposed method are the low complexity and the possibility to achieve large key space.     

Binary quantum hashing

We propose a binary quantum hashing technique that allows to present binary inputs by quantum states. We prove the cryptographic properties of the quantum hashing, including its collision resistance and preimage resistance. We also give an efficient quantum algorithm that performs quantum hashing, and altogether this means that this function is quantum one-way. The proposed construction is asymptotically optimal in the number of qubits used.     

Anonymity and one-way authentication in key exchange protocols

Key establishment is a crucial cryptographic primitive for building secure communication channels between two parties in a network. It has been studied extensively in theory and widely deployed in practice. In the research literature a typical protocol in the public-key setting aims for key secrecy and mutual authentication. However, there are many important practical scenarios where mutual authentication is undesirable, such as in anonymity networks like Tor, or is difficult to achieve due to insufficient public-key infrastructure at the user level, as is the case on the Internet today. In this work we are concerned with the scenario where two parties establish a private shared session key, but only one party authenticates to the other; in fact, the unauthenticated party may wish to have strong anonymity guarantees. We present a desirable set of security, authentication, and anonymity goals for this setting and develop a model which captures these properties. Our approach allows for clients to choose among different levels of authentication. We also describe an attack on a previous protocol of Øverlier and Syverson, and present a new, efficient key exchange protocol that provides one-way authentication and anonymity.     

一类广义Bent型S-Box的构造

S-box是密码理论与实践中十分重要的一种装置 ,它的密码性能由其分量函数所决定 .于是 ,选择适当的分量函数来构造 S-box就成了一个重要的研究课题 .在一定意义上 ,Bent函数是最优良的密码函数 .本文通过函数序列半群和置换群来构造其任何非零线性组合为 Bent函数与线性函数之和的函数组 ,从而可由 Bent函数构造出具有高度非线性度和其他良好性状的 S-box     

Refinements of Miller's algorithm for computing the Weil/Tate pairing

The efficient computation of the Weil and Tate pairings is of significant interest in the implementation of certain recently developed cryptographic protocols. The standard method of such computations has been the Miller algorithm. Three refinements to Miller's algorithm are given in this work. The first refinement is an overall improvement. If the binary expansion of the involved integer has relatively high Hamming weight, the second improvement suggested shows significant gains. The third improvement is especially efficient when the underlying elliptic curve is over a finite field of characteristic three, which is a case of particular cryptographic interest. Comment on the performance analysis and characteristics of the refinements are given.     

Unconditionally Secure Group Authentication

Group authentication schemes as introduced by Boyd and by Desmedt and Frankel are cryptographic schemes in which only certain designated groups can provide messages with authentication information. In this paper we study unconditionally secure group authentication schemes based on linear perfect secret sharing and authentication schemes, for which we give expressions for the probabilities of successful attacks. Furthermore, we give a construction that uses maximum rank distance codes.     

A novel image encryption algorithm based on a 3D chaotic map

Recently [Solak E, Çokal C, Yildiz OT Biyikogˇlu T. Cryptanalysis of Fridrich’s chaotic image encryption. Int J Bifur Chaos 2010;20:1405-1413] cryptanalyzed the chaotic image encryption algorithm of [Fridrich J. Symmetric ciphers based on two-dimensional chaotic maps. Int J Bifur Chaos 1998;8(6):1259-1284], which was considered a benchmark for measuring security of many image encryption algorithms. This attack can also be applied to other encryption algorithms that have a structure similar to Fridrich’s algorithm, such as that of [Chen G, Mao Y, Chui, C. A symmetric image encryption scheme based on 3D chaotic cat maps. Chaos Soliton Fract 2004;21:749-761]. In this paper, we suggest a novel image encryption algorithm based on a three dimensional (3D) chaotic map that can defeat the aforementioned attack among other existing attacks. The design of the proposed algorithm is simple and efficient, and based on three phases which provide the necessary properties for a secure image encryption algorithm including the confusion and diffusion properties. In phase I, the image pixels are shuffled according to a search rule based on the 3D chaotic map. In phases II and III, 3D chaotic maps are used to scramble shuffled pixels through mixing and masking rules, respectively. Simulation results show that the suggested algorithm satisfies the required performance tests such as high level security, large key space and acceptable encryption speed. These characteristics make it a suitable candidate for use in cryptographic applications.     

Cryptographic puzzles and DoS resilience,revisited

Cryptographic puzzles (or client puzzles) are moderately difficult problems that can be solved by investing non-trivial amounts of computation and/or storage. Devising models for cryptographic puzzles has only recently started to receive attention from the cryptographic community as a first step toward rigorous models and proofs of security of applications that employ them (e.g. Denial-of-Service (DoS) resistance). Unfortunately, the subtle interaction between the complex scenarios for which cryptographic puzzles are intended and typical difficulties associated with defining concrete security easily leads to flaws in definitions and proofs. Indeed, as a first contribution we exhibit shortcomings of the state-of-the-art definition of security of cryptographic puzzles and point out some flaws in existing security proofs. The main contribution of this paper are new security definitions for puzzle difficulty. We distinguish and formalize two distinct flavors of puzzle security which we call optimality and fairness and in addition, properly define the relation between solving one puzzle versus solving multiple ones. We demonstrate the applicability of our notions by analyzing the security of two popular puzzle constructions. We briefly investigate existing definitions for the related notion of security against DoS attacks. We demonstrate that the only rigorous security notion proposed to date is not sufficiently demanding (as it allows to prove secure protocols that are clearly not DoS resistant) and suggest an alternative definition. Our results are not only of theoretical interest: the better characterization of hardness for puzzles and DoS resilience allows establishing formal bounds on the effectiveness of client puzzles which confirm previous empirical observations. We also underline clear practical limitations for the effectiveness of puzzles against DoS attacks by providing simple rules of thumb that can be easily used to discard puzzles as a valid countermeasure for certain scenarios.     

New differentially 4-uniform permutations from modifications of the inverse function

Finding permutations with good cryptographic parameters is a good research topic about constructing a secure S-box in substitution-permutation networks. In particular constructing differentially 4-uniform permutations has made considerable progress in recent years. In this paper, we present new differentially 4-uniform permutations from the inverse function composed by disjoint cycles. Our new differentially 4-uniform permutations have high nonlinearity and low differential-linear uniformity. We give the differential spectrum and the extended Walsh spectrum of some of our differentially 4-uniform permutations, and then we can see that they are CCZ-inequivalent to some permutations whose differential spectrum and extended Walsh spectrum are known.     

拟Bent函数

参考文献 [1 ]中首次提出了拟 Bent函数的概念 .在本文中 ,我们进一步研究了这一类函数的性质及它与 Bent函数的关系 .当 n=4时 ,我们比较详尽地讨论了把它作为密码函数来运用的密码性质     

An improved key agreement protocol based on chaos

Cryptography based on chaos theory has developed fast in the past few years, but most of the researches focus on secret key cryptography. There are few public key encryption algorithms and cryptographic protocols based on chaos, which are also of great importance for network security. We introduce an enhanced key agreement protocol based on Chebyshev chaotic map. Utilizing the semi-group property of Chebyshev polynomials, the proposed key exchange algorithm works like Diffie–Hellman algorithm. The improved protocol overcomes the drawbacks of several previously proposed chaotic key agreement protocols. Both analytical and experimental results show that it is effective and secure.     

Synchronization of different fractional order chaotic systems using active control

Synchronization of fractional order chaotic dynamical systems is receiving increasing attention owing to its interesting applications in secure communications of analog and digital signals and cryptographic systems. In this article we utilize active control technique to synchronize different fractional order chaotic dynamical systems. Further we investigate the interrelationship between the (fractional) order and synchronization in different chaotic dynamical systems. It is observed that synchronization is faster as the order tends to one.     

Self-shrinking chaotic stream ciphers

In the last two decades, a growing number of chaos-based cipher systems have been suggested for use in cryptographic applications. Most of these systems were subject to cryptanalytic attacks, and many of them were shown to suffer from a lack of security. In this paper, we export the self-shrinking technique used in classical cryptography into chaotic systems to develop chaotic keystream generators capable of generating keystreams featuring very good statistical properties, and possessing high level of security. This paper proposes a sample self-shrinking chaos-based keystream generator implemented using a 1-D chaotic tent map. Randomness properties and results of statistical testing of keystream bits generated by applying the self-shrinking technique on chaotic maps with suitable parameters are found encouraging. Furthermore, chaotic cipher systems based on such technique are demonstrated to have a better performance in terms of randomness properties and security level than many existing cipher systems.