Image Encryption via DDPM Skipping-Step Diffusion Based on a Six-Dimensional Hyperchaotic System with Feedback Control
Songran Wang, Hanqing Zhao, Wei He, Tao Wang, Zhiben Zhuang, Tianfu Zhang, Jiacheng Xu · 2026
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Description
Songran Wang and colleagues fuse two fashionable technologies in 2026 to encrypt images: a hyperchaotic system with six dimensions and the diffusion machinery behind modern image generators. Photographs resist ordinary ciphers because neighbouring pixels resemble each other so strongly. Chaotic systems, exquisitely sensitive to their starting values, are natural scramblers, and the diffusion process adds a second, stepwise layer of mixing.
Working at both pixel and bit level, the scheme skips steps of the diffusion chain under feedback control from the chaotic system. Simulations credit it with a large key space, flat histograms, near-zero correlation between neighbouring cipher pixels, high information entropy, and survival of differential attacks. It also held up against brute force, statistical probing, chosen-plaintext tricks, added noise, and cropping. The authors aim it at image protection across cloud and internet-of-things settings.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Songran Wang, Hanqing Zhao, Wei He, Tao Wang, Zhiben Zhuang, Tianfu Zhang, Jiacheng Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38783 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |