CIPHER SYSTEMS BASED ON CONTROLLED EXACT CHAOTIC MAPS

Abstract

In this paper, we present a class of chaotic clock-controlled cipher systems based on two exact chaotic maps, where each map is capable of generating exact chaotic time series of the logistic map. This class is designed in such a way that one map controls the iterations of the second map. The suggested technique results in generating orbits possessing long cycle length and high level of security from the two periodic exact maps. In the first part of this paper, two keystream generators based on two exact chaotic logistic maps are suggested for use in cryptographic applications. The necessary conditions to generate orbits with guaranteed long enough cycle length are established. Furthermore, the generated keystreams are demonstrated to possess excellent randomness properties. In the second part, we suggest a clock-controlled encryption scheme related to Baptista's scheme and based on two exact chaotic logistic maps. This technique results in increasing the size of the key space, and hence may increase the security level against some existing cryptanalytic attacks. Furthermore, it leads to reducing the size of the ciphertext file and propably increasing the encryption speed.