A novel solar radio spectrogram encryption algorithm based on parameter variable chaotic systems and DNA dynamic encoding

Abstract

Abstract Considering that chaotic systems are highly sensitive to parameters, we design two new parameter variable chaotic systems by constructing parameter perturbation items. These systems are constructed using the state variables of the Liu chaotic system to perturb the parameters of the Lorenz and Chen chaotic systems and are called the Lorenz-Liu chaotic system (LLCS) and Chen-Liu chaotic system (CLCS), respectively. In particular, the parameter perturbation items constructed in this study are not periodic but rather chaotic signals and change in real time. Compared with the original systems, they exhibit more complex randomness and dynamic behaviors. In the proposed cryptosystem, which considers the concept of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), the solar radio spectrogram is dynamically encoded through the LLCS, and then, the CLCS is used to scramble and diffuse the decoding matrices. In addition, the algorithm uses the 256-bit Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) to generate the initial keys, which enhances the algorithm’s sensitivity to plaintext. Simulation results and security analysis show that the cryptosystem has a large key space and high key sensitivity, and can resist various attacks, such as differential attacks and chosen-plaintext attacks.