A Jigsaw Puzzle Solver-based Attack on Block-wise Image Encryption for Privacy-preserving DNNs

Abstract: Privacy-preserving deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proposed for protecting data privacy in the cloud server. Although several encryption schemes for visually protection have been proposed for privacy-preserving DNNs, several attacks enable to restore visual information from encrypted images. On the other hand, it has been confirmed that the block-wise image encryption scheme which utilizes block and pixel shuffling is robust against several attacks. In this paper, we propose a jigsaw puzzle solver-based attack to restore visual information from encrypted images including block and pixel shuffling. In experiments, images encrypted by using the block-wise image encryption are mostly restored by using the proposed attack.