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Digital key for chaos communication performing time delay concealment

Romain Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger and Luís Pesquera
Physical Review Letters 107, 034103 (1-4) (2011)

We introduce a scheme that integrates a digital key in a phase-chaos electro-optical delay system for optical chaos communications. A pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) is mixed within the chaotic dynamics in a way that a mutual concealment is performed, e.g. the time delay is hidden by the binary sequence, and the PRBS is also masked by the chaos. Besides bridging the gap between algorithmic symmetric key cryptography and chaos-based analog encoding, the proposed approach is intended to benefit from the complex algebra mixing between a (pseudo-random) boolean variable, and another continuous time (chaotic) variable. The scheme also provides a large flexibility allowing for easy reconfigurations to communicate securely at high bit rate between different systems.