Design of a Hyperchaotic Cryptosystem Based on Identical and Generalized Synchronization

In this paper identical and generalized synchronization and the complex dynamics of hyperchaotic circuits are exploited for designing reliable cryptosystems. Since chaotic additive masking, chaotic switching and chaotic parameter modulation methods can have a low degree of security, an attempt to overcome this drawback is made by utilizing hyperchaotic circuits which make available several chaotic signals. Some of these signals are used to properly synchronize the encrypter and the decrypter in an identical and generalized way. Other chaotic signals are considered for encrypting and decrypting the information messages by means of a multishift cipher scheme. The approach is applied to a communication system constituted by an encrypter and a decrypter each consisting of two coupled Chua’s circuits, unidirectionally coupled with two coupled Chua’s oscillators. Simulation results are reported to show the performance of the suggested cryptosystem.