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Chaotic quantum encryption to secure image data in post quantum consumer technology

Khan, M. S., Ahmad, J., Al-Dubai, A., Pitropakis, N., Ghaleb, B., Ullah, A., … & Buchanan, W. J. (2024). Chaotic quantum encryption to secure image data in post quantum consumer technology. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.

The rapid advancement in consumer technology has led to an exponential increase in the connected devices, resulting in an enormous and continuous flow of data, particularly the image data. This data needs to be processed, managed, and secured efficiently, especially in the quantum-enabled consumer technology era. This paper, in this regards, presents a quantum image encryption scheme featuring a novel two-phase chaotic confusion-diffusion architecture. The proposed architecture consists of four distinct confusion-diffusion modules that perform a simultaneous qubit and pixel-level encryption on both the position and intensity of quantum encoded pixels. Moreover, quantum circuits for qubit-level chaotic transformation and chaos-based selective perfect shuffle operation have been implemented, which collectively enhance the encryption strength of the proposed scheme.