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Cryptanalysis of RCES/RSES Image Encryption Scheme

Authors:
Shujun Li
Chengqing Li
Guanrong Chen
Kwok-Tung Lo
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/376
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Abstract: Recently, a chaos-based image encryption scheme called RCES (also called RSES) was proposed. This paper analyzes the security of RCES, and points out that it is insecure against the known/chosen-plaintext attacks: the number of required known/chosen plain-images is only one or two. In addition, the security of RCES against the brute-force attack was overestimated. Both theoretical and experimental analyses are given to show the performance of the suggested known/chosen-plaintext attacks. The insecurity of RCES is due to its special design, which makes it a typical example of insecure image encryption schemes. Some lessons are drawn from RCES to show some common principles for ensuring the high level of security of an image encryption scheme.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2004-12338,
  title={Cryptanalysis of RCES/RSES Image Encryption Scheme},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={applications / cryptanalysis, image encryption, RCES/RSES},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/376},
  note={ hooklee75@hotmail.com 13630 received 29 Dec 2004, last revised 27 Apr 2007},
  author={Shujun Li and Chengqing Li and Guanrong Chen and Kwok-Tung Lo},
  year=2004
}