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Design principles for image encryption schemes abound in the literature. Among these schemes, few were built upon the philosophy of swapping of the pixels in the given input image. Swapping is a very straightforward and a naïve approach for image scrambling. We believe that fuller potential of swapping has not been realized yet. In this work, a novel image encryption scheme is being presented through the swapping of pixel values of the given gray scale input image. The 5D multi-wing hyperchaotic system rendering five key streams of random numbers have been used in the proposed cipher. After the gray scale image is input, its pixels are swapped randomly. The random numbers given through the first two key streams jointly determine the address of the first pixel to be swapped with the second pixel whose address is determined by the random numbers given through the third and fourth key streams …