Message Embedded Chaotic Masking Synchronization Scheme Based on the Generalized Lorenz System and Its Security Analysis

Abstract

This paper focuses on the design of the novel chaotic masking scheme via message embedded synchronization. A general class of the systems allowing the message embedded synchronization is presented here, moreover, it is shown that the generalized Lorenz system belongs to this class. Furthermore, the secure encryption scheme based on the message embedded synchronization is proposed. This scheme injects the embedded message into the dynamics of the transmitter as well, ensuring thereby synchronization with theoretically zero synchronization error. To ensure the security, the embedded message is a sum of the message and arbitrary bounded function of the internal transmitter states that is independent of the scalar synchronization signal. The hexadecimal alphabet will be used to form a ciphertext making chaotic dynamics of the transmitter even more complicated in comparison with the transmitter influenced just by the binary step-like function. All mentioned results and their security are tested and demonstrated by numerical experiments.