An Efficient Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Innovative DES Structure and Hyperchaotic Keys

In fact, as a traditional encryption method, DES has been certified as an unsuitable tool for ciphering due to its smaller key space. Further, in concern of the real-time encryption in the current fast communication era, such as 5G, long-time as well as large computational level processes are not gotten into the consideration. As a result, an innovative encryption structure with hyperchaotic keys for efficient encryption is constructed, where the frame of DES structure is applied, the plain image is shuffled through row and column directions in the first round, and then rearranged to be 64 blocks to fit into the frame of DES structure for 4 rounds ciphering with hyperchaotic subkeys. Also, in order to encrypt the content of the image at the block level, a set of alternative S-box has been produced in this article as well. The simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme is feasible and reliable for digital image encrypting, not only a large key space can be obtained, but also the low correlation of the adjacent contents can be achieved, and further, in comparison of several existing approaches, less-computational resource can be proven as well. In particular, due to the innovative DES structure, the computational speed is significantly faster than the original DES algorithm and many other chaos-based image ciphering schemes.