Chaotic image cryptosystem using DNA deletion and DNA insertion.

By combining chaotic system and DNA sequence operations, an image cryptosystem is proposed. To generate sequences with better chaotic characteristics, a new spatiotemporal chaotic system is constructed by employing the Logistic-Sine system (LSS) in the coupled map lattice (CML). In the cryptosystem, the original image is firstly diffused through exclusive or with a key image transformed from the constructed spatiotemporal chaotic sequences. Furthermore, DNA deletion and DNA insertion pseudo-operations are used to confuse the DNA-encoded diffused image under the control of the key streams. The encrypted image is obtained after decoding the confused DNA image. Experimental results and performance analysis demonstrate that the proposed image cryptosystem has acceptable speed, good robustness and outperforms some existing image encryption schemes to counteract the recognized attacks. HighlightsLSS-based CML is constructed with better chaotic characteristics.DNA deletion and DNA insertion are employed to confuse the DNA-encoded image.The cryptosystem outperforms some image encryption algorithms on some performance.