UNMASKING A MODULATED CHAOTIC COMMUNICATIONS SCHEME

Abstract

This paper will address the problem of unmasking a new chaotic communication scheme using synchronizing circuits, where the Lorenz system is modulated by the message and the x-coordinate of the modulated system is added to the message and transmitted to the receiver. The receiver is driven into perfect synchrony with the transmitter even in the presence of the message, and since the message becomes part of the dynamics it provides very little distortion to the phase space of the dynamical system. However, this paper will demonstrate that it is still possible to extract a sinusoidal message from the transmitted signal. It will also be shown that it is possible to extract the sinusoidal signal solely from the x-coordinate, without secondarily adding back the message sinusoid before transmission. The message extraction is also shown to work for simple frequency-modulated and phase-modulated message signals. The modulated communication scheme does effectively nullify a multi-step unmasking technique which had been somewhat successful when applied to chaotic communication schemes which employed additive message signals.