A Novel Image-Encryption Scheme Based on a Non-Linear Cross-Coupled Hyperchaotic System with the Dynamic Correlation of Plaintext Pixels

Based on a logistic map and Feigenbaum map, we proposed a logistic Feigenbaum non-linear cross-coupled hyperchaotic map (LF-NCHM) model. Experimental verification showed that the system is a hyperchaotic system. Compared with the existing cross-coupled mapping, LF-NCHM demonstrated a wider hyperchaotic range, better ergodicity and richer dynamic behavior. A hyperchaotic sequence with the same number of image pixels was generated by LF-NCHM, and a novel image-encryption algorithm with permutation that is dynamically related to plaintext pixels was proposed. In the scrambling stage, the position of the first scrambled pixel was related to the sum of the plaintext pixel values, and the positions of the remaining scrambled pixels were related to the pixel values after the previous scrambling. The scrambling operation also had a certain diffusion effect. In the diffusion phase, using the same chaotic sequence as in the scrambling stage increased the usage rate of the hyperchaotic sequence and improved the calculation efficiency of the algorithm. A large number of experimental simulations and cryptanalyses were performed, and the results proved that the algorithm had outstanding security and extremely high encryption efficiency. In addition, LF-NCHM could effectively resist statistical analysis attacks, differential attacks and chosen-plaintext attacks.