An efficient color/grayscale image encryption scheme based on hybrid chaotic maps

Image encryption has become the essential way to secure image information with the high frequency of multimedia information exchange on the Internet. In this paper, an effective chaotic color/grayscale image encryption algorithm is proposed. The algorithm uses a hybrid 2D composite chaotic map combined with a sine–cosine cross-chaotic map for the transformation required to scramble the image as a confusion phase. As for the diffusion phase, a 1D...