A commercial application of a chaos-based-stream cipher: Performance and Security analysis

We present a commercial software based product that allows making audio and video conferences as well as sending encrypted instant messages that are based in a chaos stream cipher. This paper shows measurements on battery and bandwidth consumption and compares them with current state-of-the-art and widely used solutions. Results point that the chaos based system is more efficient than others. We also describe the lightweight encryption algorithm used in the application as well as some results concerning its security analysis. This system achieves savings of 95% on the CPU compared to AES-256-CBC.

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