Research Article

Securing Digital Images through Simple Permutation-Substitution Mechanism in Cloud-Based Smart City Environment

Table 1

Outcomes of NIST SP 800-22 tests for the cipher image Enc-Sailboat and its used key stream that was generated from chaotic maps.

Test name-valuePassed
Enc-sailboatKey stream

Random excursions variant (x = 1)0.7582880.911716
Rank0.2774270.023295
Random excursions (x = 1)0.7594210.324551
Long runs of ones0.5382390.047194
Overlapping templates0.3096690.864874
Frequency0.2757130.305835
Linear complexity0.2998820.348444
Block-frequency0.4697850.646149
Runs0.4230220.456241
No overlapping templates0.6869460.311721
Universal statistical0.9430580.638841
Spectral DFT0.9123140.890517
Approximate entropy0.3580940.373851

SerialTest 10.7529910.278112
Test 20.5511330.465868

Cumulative sumsReverse0.3883770.348202
Forward0.4831050.282021