Breaking a chaotic secure communication scheme

The chaotic direct sequence spread spectrum (CD3S) has been extensively studied and accepted as an approach of chaotic secure communication. However, we find that CD3S is insecure and present the results of breaking CD3S. A modified unscented-Kalman-filter chaos fitting method is proposed. With the proposed method, an intruder can use a different chaotic system to fit the transmitter's chaotic system and break the CD3S scheme without any knowledge of the chaotic transmitter's structure, parameters or initial value, even under the following conditions: (A) the chaotic spreading sequence is complex and generated by two chaotic maps; (B) there exists noise in the CD3S signal; (C) the CD3S signal is constructed in frames. Simulation results verify the method.