A novel scheme for image encryption based on piecewise linear chaotic map

Recently, the chaos based cryptographic algorithms have suggested some meaningful techniques to develop efficient image encryption schemes. In this paper, we propose a new digital image encryption scheme based on the piecewise linear chaotic map (PWLCM) in order to meet the requirements of the secure encryption. The proposed scheme is described in detail, along with the security analyses including key space analysis, sensitivity analysis, information entropy analysis and differential attack analysis. The results show that the suggested image encryption scheme has some properties desirable in a good security cryptosystem.