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This work proposes a one-dimensional sine-tent-logistic-exponential map (STLEM) equipped with numerical boundary correction rules to mitigate finite-precision numerical degradation so as to enhance the unpredictability of chaos-driven cryptosystems. We benchmark STLEM against classic logistic, tent, and sine maps via Lyapunov exponents, autocorrelation, approximate entropy, permutation entropy, Lempel-Ziv complexity, and Kolmogorov\u2013Sinai entropy. Bifurcation diagrams, the 0\u20131 test, and NIST statistical tests are further adopted to characterize its chaotic dynamics and randomness. Comparative results verify that STLEM achieves improved dynamical complexity and randomness performance. Built upon the proposed STLEM, this paper constructs a color-image encryption scheme that employs a 256-bit master key and two groups of chaotic parameters to produce key-related chaotic sequences. The cryptosystem integrates dynamic edge expansion, chaotic permutation, position-dependent adaptive DNA encoding, DNA-domain chained diffusion, and two successive row-column permutation phases. HMAC-SHA-256 is utilized to generate plaintext-aware initial conditions and perform ciphertext authentication prior to decryption. Experimental validations demonstrate complete plaintext recovery under valid secret inputs, while authentication rejects invalid keys and tampered ciphertexts. Ciphered images exhibit high information entropy, negligible adjacent-pixel correlations, and satisfactory number of pixel change rate (NPCR) and unified average changing intensity (UACI) metrics. 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