A Spatiotemporal-Chaos-Based Cryptosystem Taking Advantage of Both Synchronous and Self-Synchronizing Schemes

Two-dimensional one-way coupled map lattices are used for cryptography where multiple space units producechaotic outputs in parallel. One of the outputs plays the role of driving for synchronization of the decryption sys-tem while the others perform the function of information encoding. With this separation of functions the receivercan establish a self-checking and self-correction mechanism, and enjoys the advantages of both synchronous andself-synchronizing schemes. A comparison between the present system with the system of advanced encryptionstandard (AES) is presented in the aspect of channel noise influence. Numerical investigations show that oursystem is much stronger than AES against channel noise perturbations, and thus can be better used for securecommunications with large channel noise.