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Baptista-type chaotic cryptosystems: Problems and countermeasures

Cryptography and Security 2007-05-23 v2 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

In 1998, M. S. Baptista proposed a chaotic cryptosystem, which has attracted much attention from the chaotic cryptography community: some of its modifications and also attacks have been reported in recent years. In [Phys. Lett. A 307 (2003) 22], we suggested a method to enhance the security of Baptista-type cryptosystem, which can successfully resist all proposed attacks. However, the enhanced Baptista-type cryptosystem has a nontrivial defect, which produces errors in the decrypted data with a generally small but nonzero probability, and the consequent error propagation exists. In this Letter, we analyze this defect and discuss how to rectify it. In addition, we point out some newly-found problems existing in all Baptista-type cryptosystems and consequently propose corresponding countermeasures.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0402004,
  title  = {Baptista-type chaotic cryptosystems: Problems and countermeasures},
  author = {Shujun Li and Guanrong Chen and Kwok-Wo Wong and Xuanqin Mou and Yuanlong Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0402004},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures