Breaking a SC-CNN-based Chaotic Masking Secure Communication System

This paper studies the security of a chaotic cryptosystem based on Chua’s circuit and implemented with State Controlled Cellular Neural Networks (SC-CNN). Here we prove that the plaintext can be retrieved by bandpass filtering of the ciphertext or by using an imperfect decoder with wrong receiver pa...

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Autores: Orúe, Amalia B., Fernández Mármol, Verónica, Álvarez Marañón, Gonzalo, Pastor, Gerardo, Romera, Miguel, Montoya Vitini, Fausto, Sánchez Ávila, Carmen, Shujun, Li
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/17940
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/17940
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Chua’s attractor
Chaotic masking
Cryptanalysis
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Sumario:This paper studies the security of a chaotic cryptosystem based on Chua’s circuit and implemented with State Controlled Cellular Neural Networks (SC-CNN). Here we prove that the plaintext can be retrieved by bandpass filtering of the ciphertext or by using an imperfect decoder with wrong receiver parameters. In addition we find that the key space of the system can be reduced notably, and the required resolution of the parameter values to recover a meaningful plaintext is as coarse as 5%, easing a brute-force attack. The system parameters can be determined with high precision through the analysis of the decoding error produced by the mismatch between the parameters of receiver and transmitter.