A General Quantitative Cryptanalysis of Permutation-Only Multimedia Ciphers Against Plaintext Attacks
NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted by Sig- nal Processing: Image Communication in January 2008. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, struc- tural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version has been published in Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 212-223, 2008, DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2008.01.003. A general quantitative cryptanalysis of permutation-only multimedia ciphers against plaintext attacks Shujun Li a,∗, Chengqing Li b, Guanrong Chen b, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis c and Kwok-Tung Lo d aFernUniversit¨atin Hagen, Lehrgebiet Informationstechnik, Universit¨atsstraße 27, 58084 Hagen, Germany bDepartment of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China cInformation Technology Research Institute, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Wright State University, 3640 Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH 45435, USA dDepartment of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China Abstract In recent years secret permutations have been widely used for protecting differ- ent types of multimedia data, including speech files, digital images and videos. Based on a general model of permutation-only multimedia ciphers, this paper per- forms a quantitative cryptanalysis on the performance of these
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