Research Article

A New Chaos-Based Color Image Encryption Scheme with an Efficient Substitution Keystream Generation Strategy

Table 1

Results of NIST statistical test.

Test itemsPass rate
Proposed methodConventional method

Frequency100.0%97.50%
Block frequency99.00%99.00%
Cusum-forward100.0%97.00%
Cusum-reverse100.0%97.50%
Runs99.50%98.50%
Long runs of ones99.50%97.50%
Rank99.00%98.50%
Spectral DFT99.00%99.00%
Nonoverlapping templates99.50%98.50%
Overlapping templates99.00%97.00%
Universal98.50%98.00%
Approximate entropy99.00%97.50%
Random excursions98.21%99.43%
Random excursions variant99.40%100.0%
Linear complexity99.50%99.50%
Serial99.50%99.00%