Shahid Usman, Kanwal Shamsa, Bano Mahwish, Inam Saba, Abdalla Manal Elzain Mohamed, Shaikh Zaffar Ahmed
Department of Mathematics, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, The Mall, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 20;15(1):6236. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-90502-5.
Data security during transmission over public networks has become a key concern in an era of rapid digitization. Image data is especially vulnerable since it can be stored or transferred using public cloud services, making it open to illegal access, breaches, and eavesdropping. This work suggests a novel way to integrate blockchain technology with a Chaotic Tent map encryption scheme in order to overcome these issues. The outcome is a Blockchain driven Chaotic Tent Map Encryption Scheme (BCTMES) for secure picture transactions. The idea behind this strategy is to ensure an extra degree of security by fusing the distributed and immutable properties of blockchain technology with the intricate encryption offered by chaotic maps. To ensure that the image is transformed into a cipher form that is resistant to several types of attacks, the proposed BCTMES first encrypts it using the Chaotic Tent map encryption technique. The accompanying signed document is safely kept on the blockchain, and this encrypted image is subsequently uploaded to the cloud. The integrity and authenticity of the image are confirmed upon retrieval by utilizing blockchain's consensus mechanism, adding another layer of security against manipulation. Comprehensive performance evaluations show that BCTMES provides notable enhancements in important security parameters, such as entropy, correlation coefficient, key sensitivity, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), unified average changing intensity (UACI), and number of pixels change rate (NPCR). In addition to providing good defense against brute-force attacks, the high key size of [Formula: see text] further strengthens the system's resilience. To sum up, the BCTMES effectively addresses a number of prevalent risks to picture security and offers a complete solution that may be implemented in cloud-based settings where data integrity and privacy are crucial. This work suggests a promising path for further investigation and practical uses in secure image transmission.
在快速数字化的时代,公共网络传输过程中的数据安全已成为一个关键问题。图像数据尤其脆弱,因为它可以使用公共云服务进行存储或传输,从而容易受到非法访问、泄露和窃听。这项工作提出了一种将区块链技术与混沌帐篷映射加密方案相结合的新方法,以克服这些问题。其成果是一种用于安全图片交易的区块链驱动混沌帐篷映射加密方案(BCTMES)。该策略背后的理念是,通过将区块链技术的分布式和不可变特性与混沌映射提供的复杂加密相结合,确保更高程度的安全性。为确保图像被转换为一种能抵御多种类型攻击的密文形式,所提出的BCTMES首先使用混沌帐篷映射加密技术对其进行加密。附带的签名文件安全地保存在区块链上,随后将此加密图像上传到云端。在检索时,利用区块链的共识机制确认图像的完整性和真实性,增加了另一层防止篡改的安全保障。综合性能评估表明,BCTMES在熵、相关系数、密钥敏感性、峰值信噪比(PSNR)、统一平均变化强度(UACI)和像素变化率数量(NPCR)等重要安全参数方面有显著提升。除了能有效抵御暴力攻击外,[公式:见原文]的高密钥大小进一步增强了系统的弹性。总之,BCTMES有效地解决了图片安全方面的一些普遍风险,并提供了一个完整的解决方案,可在数据完整性和隐私至关重要的基于云的环境中实施。这项工作为安全图像传输的进一步研究和实际应用指明了一条有前景的道路。