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Vol: 48(62) No: 1 / March 2003      

Implementation of a Secure Chaotic Based Encryption Technique
D. Curiac
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 1900 Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: curiac@aut.utt.ro
I. Filip
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 1900 Timisoara, Romania
A. Doboli
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, USA, e-mail: adoboli@ece.sunysb.edu


Keywords: encryption, chaotic system, ciphertext, plaintext, encryption key.

Abstract
This paper proposes a software implementation of a symmetric encryption algorithm based on a mixture of the original plaintext with one of the state variables of Henon discrete chaotic system. The Visual C++ 6.0 environment was used for developing a software package.

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