An Improved Block Cryptosystem Based on Iterating Delayed Chaotic Neural Networks

Abstract:

Recently, a large number of chaotic cryptosystems have been proposed, many of them fundamentally flawed by lack of robustness and security. In this paper, we point out the weakness of a very recent block cipher algorithm which is based on the chaotic Hopfield neural networks with time varying delay and give the improved scheme of it. We provide the chosen plaintext attack to recover the permuted plaintext string, and point out that the encryption speed is not fast enough. It is shown that the dependence on the key, but not on the plaintext, to generate binary sequences of iterating the chaotic map mechanism facilitates leakage of the information and vulnerable been attacked. Based on such a fact, we give the improved scheme to obtain higher security and faster speed.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 380-384)
• Pages: 2623-2628
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.380-384.2623
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Xin Guo Zou
• Keywords: Chaos, Chaotic Cryptosystem, Encryption, Security

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