Using Genetic Algorithm to Encrypt Image

ABSTRACT In the Digital world, information security becomes a main concern. Encryption algorithms have emerged as practical tools for ownership authentication and copyright protection. Digital images play a vital role in our daily lives as a big source of information and a lots of algorithms have been proposed for digital image encryption. Among them, Genetic algorithm (GA) has been used often in conjunction with well-established cryptography strategies or in a stand-alone fashion. There are many different image encryption methods, in this paper we will introduce the method that is called Genetic Algorithms (GA) are used to produce a new encryption method (Crossover and Mutation). Excellent results show that the proposed method can be used effectively for image encryption Keywords: genetic algorithm; Crossover; Mutation; Symmetric Key