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This paper discusses mixing of chaotic systems as a dependable method for secure communication. Distribution of the entropy function for steady state as well as plaintext input sequences are analyzed. It is shown that the mixing of chaotic…
In this paper is proposed a novel steganographic scheme based on chaotic iterations. This research work takes place into the information hiding security fields. We show that the proposed scheme is stego-secure, which is the highest level of…
Images and video sequences carry large volumes of highly correlated and redundant data. Applications like military and telecommunication require encryption methods to protect the data from unwanted access. This requirement in most cases…
A new self-synchronizing stream cipher (SSSC) is proposed based on one-way and nearest neighbor coupled integer maps. Some ideas of spatiotemporal chaos synchronization and chaotic cryptography are applied in this new SSSC system. Several…
Optical computing has gained significant attention as a potential solution to the growing computational demands of machine learning, particularly for tasks requiring large-scale data processing and high energy efficiency. Optical systems…
Unimodal maps have been broadly used as a base of new encryption strategies. Recently, a stream cipher has been proposed in the literature, whose keystream is basically a symbolic sequence of the (one-parameter) logistic map or of the tent…
There are some good combinatorial structures suitable for image encryption. In this study, a new chaotic image encryption algorithm based on transversals in a Latin square is proposed. By means of an n-transversal of a Latin square, we can…
We study the encryption and decryption processes of color images using the synchronization of polarization dynamics in a free-running vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). Here, we consider a bidirectional master-slave…
Medical image encryption plays an important role in protecting sensitive health information from cyberattacks and unauthorized access. In this paper, we introduce a secure and robust encryption scheme that is multi-modality compatible and…
Plaintext non-delayed chaotic cipher (PNDCC) means that in the diffusion equation, plaintext has no delay terms while ciphertext has a feedback term. In existing literature, chaotic cipher diffusions invariably take this form. Since its…
We present CryptoChaos, a novel hybrid cryptographic framework that synergizes deterministic chaos theory with cutting-edge cryptographic primitives to achieve robust, post-quantum resilient encryption. CryptoChaos harnesses the intrinsic…
Chaotic iterations, a tool formerly used in distributed computing, has recently revealed various interesting properties of disorder leading to its use in the computer science security field. In this paper, a comprehensive study of its…
This paper introduces a new framework for data hiding security. Contrary to the existing ones, the approach introduced here is not based on probability theory. In this paper, a scheme is considered as secure if its behavior is proven…
As a powerful cryptanalysis tool, the method of return-map attacks can be used to extract secret messages masked by chaos in secure communication schemes. Recently, a simple defensive mechanism was presented to enhance the security of…
This paper analyzes the use of the logistic map for cryptographic applications. The most important characteristics of the logistic map are shown in order to prove the inconvenience of considering this map in the design of new chaotic…
By cross-coupling two logistic maps a novel method is proposed for the public key steganography in JPEG image. Chaotic maps entail high complexity in the used algorithm for embedding secret data in a medium. In this paper, discrete cross-…
In remote estimation of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), sensor measurements transmitted through network may be attacked by adversaries, leading to leakage risk of privacy (e.g., the system state), and/or failure of the remote estimator. To…
Recently Bu and Wang [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 19 (2004) 919] proposed a simple modulation method aiming to improve the security of chaos-based secure communications against return-map-based attacks. Soon this modulation method was…
This work analyzes the security weakness of a recently proposed communication method based on chaotic modulation and masking using synchronization of two chaotic systems with different orders. It is shown that its application to secure…
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a popular modulation technique for transmitting digital data over wireless radio channels, including medical images due to its high transmission capacity, low interference, bandwidth…