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It has become an important issue in the field of information security today to encrypt images to ensure information security. To address this issue, this paper proposes a Pixel-Level and DNA-Level Image Encryption Method Based on a Five-Dimensional Hyperchaotic System, named PD5H. The proposed method combines a five-dimensional chaotic system, a novel pixel-block internal diffusion method, and a new flow diffusion method integrating Pixel-Level and DNA-Level encryption, hereinafter referred to as \u2018joint diffusion\u2019. The improved 5D chaotic system can generate highly complex and unpredictable chaotic sequences. The intra-block diffusion process utilizes the internal information of the image to perform preliminary diffusion and reduce pixel correlation. The joint diffusion process can effectively employ various encryption methods to encrypt images with different step sizes at the bit level. PD5H has a large key space, extremely low image correlation, a uniform ciphertext pixel distribution, an excellent ciphertext entropy value (&gt;7.999), and strong resistance to differential attacks. It also demonstrates strong resistance to data loss. The security analysis confirms that PD5H demonstrates excellent performance in color image encryption and can effectively resist various common attacks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27121221","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]],"date-time":"2025-12-01T13:03:02Z","timestamp":1764594182000},"page":"1221","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Pixel-Level and DNA-Level Image Encryption Method Based on Five-Dimensional Hyperchaotic System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-2155-4925","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Min","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-2250-9040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China"}]},{"given":"Wenqi","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China"}]},{"given":"Jianming","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6625-2209","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhe","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"3131","article-title":"Color image encryption method based on chaotic systems","volume":"31","author":"Jiang","year":"2014","journal-title":"Appl. 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