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To solve these problems, and keep sensitive information safe, this paper proposes a plaintext-related color image encryption scheme. Firstly, a new five-dimensional hyperchaotic system is constructed in this paper, and its performance is analyzed. Secondly, this paper applies the Hopfield chaotic neural network together with the novel hyperchaotic system to propose a new encryption algorithm. The plaintext-related keys are generated by image chunking. The pseudo-random sequences iterated by the aforementioned systems are used as key streams. Therefore, the proposed pixel-level scrambling can be completed. Then the chaotic sequences are utilized to dynamically select the rules of DNA operations to complete the diffusion encryption. This paper also presents a series of security analyses of the proposed encryption scheme and compares it with other schemes to evaluate its performance. The results show that the key streams generated by the constructed hyperchaotic system and the Hopfield chaotic neural network improve the key space. The proposed encryption scheme provides a satisfying visual hiding result. Furthermore, it is resistant to a series of attacks and the problem of structural degradation caused by the simplicity of the encryption system\u2019s structure.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24101474","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]],"date-time":"2022-10-17T05:08:02Z","timestamp":1665983282000},"page":"1474","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["A Novel Color Image Encryption Scheme Based on Hyperchaos and Hopfield Chaotic Neural Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Yanan","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Engineering College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jian","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Engineering College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenjie","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Aerospace Institute of Automatic Control, Beijing 100854, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6147-0733","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinyu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Engineering College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Danyang","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Engineering College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qun","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Engineering College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2129","DOI":"10.1142\/S0218127406015970","article-title":"Some basic cryptographic requirements for chaos-based cryptosystems","volume":"16","author":"Alvarez","year":"2006","journal-title":"Int. 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