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Abstract

Cryptography is the most peculiar way to secure data and most of the encryption algorithms are mainly used for textual data and not suitable for transmission data such as images. It is seen that the generation of secure key in Image cryptography has been a challenging task in the way of providing secured key generation for the transmitted data. In order to aid secured key generation in this context, an optimized secret key generation based on Chebyshev polynomial with Adaptive Firefly (FF) optimization technique is proposed. The optimized key is utilized with process of shuffling, diffusion, and swapping to get a better encrypted image. At the receiver end, reverse process is applied with optimized key to retrieve the original input image. The efficiency of our proposed method is assessed by the exhaustive experimental study. The results show that the proposed methodology provided correlation coefficient of 0.21, Number of Pixels Change Rate (NPCR) of 0.996, Unified Average Changing Intensity (UACI) of 0.3346 and Information Entropy of 7.995 as compared with the existing methods.

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Encrypted image DWT Chebyshev polynomial optimized secret key Adaptive firefly (FF) optimization algorithm

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Adaptive firefly algorithm based optimized key generation for image security

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