Genetic Algorithm: Tool to Encrypt Image
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Security is an important issue when digital images are transmitted through the internet and cellular phones, as well as being important in encryption of the satellite images, and image encryption is the most useful technique employed for this purpose. Genetic Algorithm (GA) can be regarded as a randomized search procedure that is commonly used to solve the optimization problems. The genetic algorithm uses two reproduction operators - crossover and mutation. Crossover assembles existing genes into new combinations, and mutation produces new genes.In this paper, a new approach of employing the crossover and the mutation operations of the genetic algorithms (GA) to encrypt images was proposed. The results of several experimental, statistical analysis and key sensitivity tests show that the proposed image encryption scheme provides an efficient and secure way for real-time image encryption and transmission.
Keywords:Crossover, Mutation, Information Security, Random, Distortion
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