Paper 2004/376 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2004/376 ↗

Cryptanalysis of RCES/RSES Image Encryption Scheme

Shujun Li
Chengqing Li
Guanrong Chen
Kwok-Tung Lo
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.

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Preprint.
History
2007-04-27: last updated
2005-01-03: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2004/376
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/376,
      author = {Shujun Li and Chengqing Li and Guanrong Chen and Kwok-Tung Lo},
      title = {Cryptanalysis of RCES/RSES Image Encryption Scheme},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2004/376},
      year = {2004},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/376}
}
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