\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 06089871} \itemau{del Rey, A.Mart{\'\i}n; S\'anchez, G.Rodr{\'\i}guez; de la Villa Cuenca, A.} \itemti{Encrypting digital images using cellular automata.} \itemso{Corchado, Emilio (ed.) et al., Hybrid artificial intelligent systems. 7th international conference, HAIS 2012, Salamanca, Spain, March 28--30, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-28930-9/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7209. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 78-88 (2012).} \itemab Summary: In this paper a novel symmetric protocol to cipher digital images is introduced. The protocol proposed consists of two iterative phases: The confusion phase and the diffusion phase. The first stage permutes the pixels in the image using a discrete chaotic map (specifically, the Cat map), whereas in the second stage, the pixel values (that is, the color of each pixel) are modified sequentially by means of a reversible memory cellular automata. The proposed protocol is shown to be secure against the more important cryptanalytic attacks. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{cryptography; cellular automata; image processing} \itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28931-6\_8} \end