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Nithin Nagaraj

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arXiv2008

Multiplexing of discrete chaotic signals in presence of noise

In this paper, multiplexing of discrete chaotic signals in the presence of noise is investigated. Existing methods are based on chaotic synchronization which is susceptible to noise and parameter mismatch. Furthermore, these methods fail for multiplexing more than two discrete chaotic signals. We propose two novel methods to multiplex multiple discrete chaotic signals based on the principle of symbolic sequence invariance in the presence of noise and finite precision implementation of finding the initial condition of an arbitrarily long symbolic sequence of a chaotic map.

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arXiv2008

One-Time Pad, Arithmetic Coding and Logic Gates: An unifying theme using Dynamical Systems

In this letter, we prove that the perfectly secure One-Time Pad (OTP) encryption can be seen as finding the initial condition on the binary map under a random switch based on the perfectly random pad. This turns out to be a special case of Grangetto's randomized arithmetic coding performed on the Binary Map. Furthermore, we derive the set of possible perfect secrecy systems using such an approach. Since OTP encryption is an XOR operation, we thus have a dynamical systems implementation of the XOR gate. We show similar implementations for other gates such as NOR, NAND, OR, XNOR, AND and NOT. The dynamical systems framework unifies the three areas to which Shannon made foundational contributions: lossless compression (Source Coding), perfect encryption (Cryptography), and design of logic gates (Computation)

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arXiv2008

Cryptanalysis of a Chaotic Image Encryption Algorithm

Line map, an invertible, two-dimensional chaotic encryption algorithm was introduced recently. In this paper, we propose several weaknesses of the method based on standard cryptanalytic attacks. We perform a side-channel attack by observing the execution time of the encryption algorithm and successfully reduce the key space by a factor of 10^4 for a key length of 16 digits. We find the existence of equivalent keys which reduce the key space by a significant margin, even in the absence of any attack. Also, we find that the ciphertext is not sensitive to small changes in the plaintext due to poor diffusion.

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arXiv2007

A non-linear dynamical systems approach to source compression for constrained sources

We have recently established a strong connection between the Tent map (also known as Generalized Luroth Series or GLS which is a chaotic, ergodic and lebesgue measure preserving non-linear dynamical system) and Arithmetic coding which is a popular source compression algorithm used in international compression standards such as JPEG2000 and H.264. This was for independent and identically distributed binary sources. In this paper, we address the problem of compression of ergodic Markov binary sources with certain words forbidden from the message space. We shall show that GLS can be modified suitably to achieve Shannon's entropy rate for these sources.

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arXiv2006

Joint Entropy Coding and Encryption using Robust Chaos

We propose a framework for joint entropy coding and encryption using Chaotic maps. We begin by observing that the message symbols can be treated as the symbolic sequence of a discrete dynamical system. For an appropriate choice of the dynamical system, we could back-iterate and encode the message as the initial condition of the dynamical system. We show that such an encoding achieves Shannon's entropy and hence optimal for compression. It turns out that the appropriate discrete dynamical system to achieve optimality is the piecewise-linear Generalized Luroth Series (GLS) and further that such an entropy coding technique is exactly equivalent to the popular Arithmetic Coding algorithm. GLS is a generalization of Arithmetic Coding with different modes of operation. GLS preserves the Lebesgue measure and is ergodic. We show that these properties of GLS enable a framework for joint compression and encryption and thus give a justification of the recent work of Grangetto et al. and Wen et al. Both these methods have the obvious disadvantage of the key length being equal to the message length for strong security. We derive measure preserving piece-wise non-linear GLS (nGLS) and their skewed cousins, which exhibit Robust Chaos. We propose a joint entropy coding and encryption framework using skewed-nGLS and demonstrate Shannon's desired sensitivity to the key parameter. Potentially, our method could improve the security and key efficiency over Grangetto's method while still maintaining the total compression ratio. This is a new area of research with promising applications in communications.

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arXiv2006

The B-Exponential Map: A Generalization of the Logistic Map, and Its Applications In Generating Pseudo-random Numbers

A 1-dimensional generalization of the well known Logistic Map is proposed. The proposed family of maps is referred to as the B-Exponential Map. The dynamics of this map are analyzed and found to have interesting properties. In particular, the B-Exponential Map exhibits robust chaos for all real values of the parameter B >= e^(-4). We then propose a pseudo-random number generator based on the B-Exponential Map by chaotically hopping between different trajectories for different values of B. We call this BEACH (B-Exponential All-Chaotic Map Hopping) pseudo-random number generator. BEACH successfully passes stringent statistical randomness tests such as ENT, NIST and Diehard. An implementation of BEACH is also outlined.

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arXiv2005

Re-visiting the One-Time Pad

In 1949, Shannon proved the perfect secrecy of the Vernam cryptographic system,also popularly known as the One-Time Pad (OTP). Since then, it has been believed that the perfectly random and uncompressible OTP which is transmitted needs to have a length equal to the message length for this result to be true. In this paper, we prove that the length of the transmitted OTP which actually contains useful information need not be compromised and could be less than the message length without sacrificing perfect secrecy. We also provide a new interpretation for the OTP encryption by treating the message bits as making True/False statements about the pad, which we define as a private-object. We introduce the paradigm of private-object cryptography where messages are transmitted by verifying statements about a secret-object. We conclude by suggesting the use of Formal Axiomatic Systems for investing N bits of secret.

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