A Novel Dynamic Hill Cipher and Its Applications on Medical IoT

Cryptography is one of the most important areas in information security. Cryptography ensures secure communication and data privacy, and it is increasingly being applied in healthcare and related fields. As an important classical cryptographic method, the Hill cipher has always been closely studied by experts and scholars. In order to enhance the security of the conventional Hill cipher (CHC), a novel dynamic Hill cipher (NDHC) is proposed in this work. The proposed NDHC not only replaces the static key matrix of the CHC with a time-varying dynamic key matrix (TVDKM) to change the image pixel values over time t, but also uses the Logistic chaos sequence scrambling the image pixel positions, which greatly enhances the security of the CHC. However, how to effectively obtain the dynamic inversion key matrix (DIKM) of the TVDKM becomes an urgent issue in the NDHC decryption. In order to quickly find the DIKM, a fixed-time convergence fuzzy Zeroing neural network (FTCF-ZNN) model is constructed, and the convergence and robustness of the FTCF-ZNN model for solving the DIKM are verified through theoretical analysis and comparative experimental results. Moreover, the effectiveness and security of the proposed NDHC for medical images encryption and decryption are also validated by experiments.