Chaos-based Cryptography: a Promising Technology
Résumé
Security and confidentiality of image and video data is an important research topic and have been widely investigated by using standard cryptography and chaos-based cryptography. Indeed, a variety of chaos-based cryptosystems have been investigated during the last decade. Most of them are based on the structure of Fridrich, which is based on the traditional confusion-diffusion architecture proposed by Shannon. Compared with traditional cryptography, the chaos-based cryptography are more flexible which make them more suitable for large scale-data encryption, such as images and video. The heart of any chaos-based cryptosystem is the chaotic generator and so, a part of the efficiency (robustness, speed) of the system depends greatly on it. Furthermore, in stream ciphers all the security depend on the used pseudo-random number generator (PRNG).
In this talk, we present two strong chaos-based cryptosystems: a stream cipher and block cipher. These chaos- cryptosystems are recently published.