Securing Digital Color Image based on Hybrid Substitution Cipher
This study proposes securing digital color images with hybrid substitution cryptographic methods combined with the Vigenere and Beaufort methods. The hybrid process is carried out using the help of two randomly generated keys. The first key is a matrix with an 8-bits value and the second key is a matrix with a binary value. The binary key is used to determine the Vigenere or Beaufort process, while the 8-bit key is used for modulus operations based on the Vigenere or Beaufort algorithm. At the test stage used a standard image that has an RGB color channel as a dataset. The quality of the cryptographic method is measured by several measuring instruments such as MSE, PSNR, and SSIM to determine the quality of encryption visually and the perfection of decryption, besides that it is used Entropy, NPCR and UACI to determine the probability of encryption resistance and quality against differential attacks. The TIC TOC function is also used to measure the computing speed of the encryption and decryption process. Measurement results using all measuring instruments indicate that the proposed method has very satisfying results and has fast computing. Keywords – Cryptography, Substitution Cipher, Modulus Function, Encryption, Decryption, Image Transmission