A medical image encryption method based on chaos floating-point operation and its realization by FPGA

Abstract

Aiming at the high confidentiality requirement of medical image data transmission in the Internet, an encryption method based on Logistic chaotic floating point number operation is proposed for medical image encryption. In this encryption method, PRNG based on Logistic chaos was designed with double-precision floating-point operations and described by the Verilog . The comprehensive design of encryption method is realized on the development platform of Cyclone IV series DE2-115 of Altera Corporation. The security of encryption algorithm is analyzed from the cryptographic perspectives such as key sensitivity test, histogram analysis, correlation test, information entropy processing, etc. By comparing with some existing image encryption algorithms, it is found that the image encrypted by this encryption algorithm has the characteristics of being sensitive to keys, small correlation coefficient and high information entropy. In addition, the FPGA-based hardware encryption system has high encryption stability and good real-time performance.

Keywords

• image encryption
• chaos map
• floating point arithmetic
• prng
• fpga