title: On chaos synchronization and secure communication.
abstract: Chaos synchronization, in particular isochronal synchronization of two chaotic trajectories to each other, may be used to build a means of secure communication over a public channel. In this paper, we give an overview of coupling schemes of Bernoulli units deduced from chaotic laser systems, different ways to transmit information by chaos synchronization and the advantage of bidirectional over unidirectional coupling with respect to secure communication. We present the protocol for using dynamical private commutative filters for tap-proof transmission of information that maps the task of a passive attacker to the class of non-deterministic polynomial time-complete problems.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kinzel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Englert
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kanter
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D016494:Computer Security; D005246:Feedback; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D055641:Mathematical Concepts; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012637:Security Measures; D013598:Systems Theory