An Image Security Model Based on Chaos and DNA Cryptography for IIoT Images

The images generated by smart cameras and sensors in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ecosystem are at significant risk when transmitted over a public network due to the dynamicity and open nature of the IIoT environment. Encryption is a viable method for safeguarding IIoT digital images. This article addresses an image security framework using chaotic maps and DNA cryptography. The proposed algorithm uses a tent, circle, Chebyshev, and 3-D logistic map in a multilevel fashion to generate three keys. These keys are used for row-column rotation of subblocks, determine the rule to perform DNA encoding–decoding on the subblocks, and generate a key image on which DNA XOR operation is performed to get the encrypted image. The proposed scheme’s result analysis illustrates that the average NPCR (99. 6566%), UACI (33. 4588%), Entropy (7. 9971), and larger key-space of 10^195 are better than the existing schemes and are resistant to different attacks.