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Abstract Chaotic dynamical systems or simply “chaotic maps” have drawn the attention of cryptographers toward building a new generation of multimedia cryptosystems (image, audio or video protection schemes). Chaotic maps have the desired properties unpredictability, ergodicity, and sensitivity to their parameter(s) and initial value(s) that full the requirements of cryptosystem confusion-diffusion properties. Chaotic maps structures are simple and their hardware implementations are relatively easy and have low cost. However, some of chaotic maps were proved to be insecure due to some drawbacks in their behavior. Thus, enhancing chaotic systems with excellent chaotic behavior and good performance becomes significative. Very recently, quantum chaotic systems answer the question of how chaotic systems can be described in terms of quantum theory. It emerges a new branch of physics from the efforts to understand the features of quantum systems which have chaotic deterministic dynamics in the classical limit. One of the aims of quantum chaos is the study of quantum versions of classical chaotic systems. Quantum chaos can be characterized by the sensitivity to parameters in the Hamiltonian space that governs the chaotic dynamics. This interesting property can be used in designing cryptosystems. This dissertation adopts new combinations of chaotic systems, namely one way coupled map lattice, multiple one dimensional chaotic systems, quantum chaotic system, and Chen’s chaotic system combined with choquet fuzzy integral, and utilized them to design new image encryption schemes. In view of this, designing new secure and fast security algorithms based on the new chaotic systems that protect the confidentiality, achieving authentication and access control is essential for image encryption applications. This research involves the following aspects of chaos based image cryptosystem: block cipher, stream cipher, selective encryption and steganography. The proposed schemes have been evaluated in terms of safety and performance by measuring the subjective and objective metrics. They showed good performance and security. |