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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,270 Views
29 Pages

25 October 2023

Protecting digital data, especially digital images, from unauthorized access and malicious activities is crucial in today’s digital era. This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance image encryption by combining the strengths of the RSA al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Encryption and Privacy Protection Based on Chaotic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,027 Views
21 Pages

This paper introduces a novel memristor-based hyperchaotic system in which the integer-order derivatives are replaced by a variable-order fractal-fractional operator. The dynamical properties of the system, including equilibrium points, Lyapunov expo...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
29 Pages

In this paper, a multi-image encryption and hiding scheme based on controllable compressive sensing and adaptive matching embedding is proposed. The highlights of this scheme include the use of adaptive data segmentation, controllable integer compres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
713 Views
25 Pages

Robust Image Encryption Exploiting 2D Hyper-Chaos, Fractal Sierpiński Carpet Confusion, and Cascaded Diffusion

  • Zeyu Zhang,
  • Wenqiang Zhang,
  • Mingxu Wang,
  • Na Ren and ,
  • Peizhen Zhang and
  • Yiting Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 April 2026

With the rapid growth of digital image transmission, ensuring data security has become increasingly important. However, existing chaos-based image encryption algorithms often suffer from insufficient chaotic randomness and weak integration between ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,815 Views
24 Pages

In this paper, a new fractional-order seed chaotic generator is designed to solve the problem of the complex operations of single low-dimensional systems and simple high-dimensional systems. The fractional-order chaotic system generated is proven to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
7,849 Views
28 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Secure Image Encryption Based on Julia Set of Fractals and 3D Lorenz Chaotic Map

  • Fawad Masood,
  • Jawad Ahmad,
  • Syed Aziz Shah,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal and
  • Iqtadar Hussain

28 February 2020

Chaos-based encryption schemes have attracted many researchers around the world in the digital image security domain. Digital images can be secured using existing chaotic maps, multiple chaotic maps, and several other hybrid dynamic systems that enha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,801 Views
27 Pages

Fractal’s spatially nonuniform phenomena and chaotic nature highlight the function utilization in fractal cryptographic applications. This paper proposes a new composite fractal function (CFF) that combines two different Mandelbrot set (MS) fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,133 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Nonlinear Pseudorandom Sequence Generator for the Fractal Function

  • Yelai Feng,
  • Huaixi Wang,
  • Chao Chang,
  • Hongyi Lu and ,
  • Fang Yang and
  • Chenyang Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

A pseudorandom sequence is a repeatable sequence with random statistical properties that is widely used in communication encryption, authentication and channel coding. The pseudorandom sequence generator based on the linear feedback shift register ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Chaotic System: Control and Synchronization)
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  • Open Access
454 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2026

In this research, based on Adomian decomposition method (ADM), we construct true fractional-order differential equations. Due to the boosting function brought by the sine function, the system can output infinite coexistence attractors on y–z pl...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,725 Views
14 Pages

Image Encryption Based on Local Fractional Derivative Complex Logistic Map

  • Hayder Natiq,
  • Nadia M. G. Al-Saidi,
  • Suzan J. Obaiys,
  • Mohammed Najah Mahdi and
  • Alaa Kadhim Farhan

8 September 2022

Local fractional calculus (fractal calculus) plays a crucial role in applications, especially in computer sciences and engineering. One of these applications appears in the theory of chaos. Therefore, this paper studies the dynamics of a fractal comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Symmetric Systems and Chaotic Systems in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,612 Views
23 Pages

Random number generators are used in areas such as encryption and system modeling, where some of these exhibit fractal behaviors. For this reason, it is interesting to make use of the memristor characteristics for the random number generation. Accord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Circuits & Systems Design and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,819 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2018

A chaos-based cryptosystem has been suggested and investigated since last decade because of its sensitivity to the initial condition, unpredictability and ergodicity properties. The paper introduces a new chaotic map which helps to enhance the securi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,173 Views
17 Pages

Fractal Tent Map with Application to Surrogate Testing

  • Ekaterina Kopets,
  • Vyacheslav Rybin,
  • Oleg Vasilchenko,
  • Denis Butusov and ,
  • Petr Fedoseev and
  • Artur Karimov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Discrete chaotic maps are a mathematical basis for many useful applications. One of the most common is chaos-based pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs), which should be computationally cheap and controllable and possess necessary statistical proper...

(This article belongs to the Topic Recent Trends in Nonlinear, Chaotic and Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
497 Views
31 Pages

Efficient and Robust Image Cryptosystem Utilizing a Fractional-Order Discrete Cross-Coupled Map and Fractal Dragon Curve

  • Can Cui,
  • Wei Feng,
  • Juan Tang,
  • Ya Gan and ,
  • Zilin Gao and
  • Heping Wen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Fractional-order chaotic systems have gained immense popularity in image encryption due to their complex nonlinear dynamics and infinite memory effects. However, their excessive computational complexity remains a persistent bottleneck, severely hinde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Chaotic and Complex Systems, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,694 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Image Encryption Scheme Based on Collatz Conjecture

  • Dora M. Ballesteros,
  • Jimmy Peña and
  • Diego Renza

25 November 2018

Image encryption methods aim to protect content privacy. Typically, they encompass scrambling and diffusion. Every pixel of the image is permuted (scrambling) and its value is transformed according to a key (diffusion). Although several methods have...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory Applications in Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,377 Views
11 Pages

A Steganalysis Classification Algorithm Based on Distinctive Texture Features

  • Baraa Tareq Hammad,
  • Ismail Taha Ahmed and
  • Norziana Jamil

25 January 2022

Steganography is the technique for secretly hiding messages in media such as text, audio, image, and video without being discovered. Image is one of the most essential media for concealing data, making it hard to identify hidden data not visible to t...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)