The invention discloses a color medical image
encryption method based on an iris secret key and
digital holography, and the method comprises the
encryption steps: firstly generating an iris
chaotic structure light phase mask through employing an iris
feature extraction technology, a
chaotic matrix generation program, and a
phase modulation technology; then, an FRFCM
algorithm, a
grating modulation technology, a Fresnel domain double random
phase coding technology based on
chaotic structured light illumination and a digital holographic coding technology are utilized to encrypt the original color medical
plaintext image, so that three amplitude type holographic
ciphertext graphs are generated; and a decryption step: firstly, carrying out iris
authentication on the decryption user and the
encryption user, if the
authentication is successful, decrypting the
ciphertext hologram by using iris high-order
mask data of the encryption user so as to generate a correct decryption result, and otherwise, stopping decryption if the
authentication fails. The color medical image encryption method provided by the invention has the advantages of
high security, good iris key robustness, high digital key sensitivity, small calculation burden, large
key space and high decryption quality.