Security Evaluation of Compressible Image Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Image Classification against Ciphertext-only Attacks

The security of learnable image encryption schemes for image classification using deep neural networks against several attacks has been discussed. On the other hand, block scrambling image encryption using the vision transformer has been proposed, which applies to lossless compression methods such as JPEG standard by dividing an image into permuted blocks. Although robustness of the block scrambling image encryption against jigsaw puzzle solver attacks that utilize a correlation among the blocks has been evaluated under the condition of a large number of encrypted blocks, the security of encrypted images with a small number of blocks has never been evaluated. In this paper, the security of the block scrambling image encryption against ciphertext-only attacks is evaluated by using jigsaw puzzle solver attacks.

Tatsuya Chuman, Hitoshi Kiya · 2022