An Area Efficient Architecture of a Novel Chaotic System for High Randomness Security in e-Health

Abstract

An e-Health application must be carefully designed, as a malicious attack has ethical and legal consequences. While common cryptography protocols enhance security, they also add high computation overhead. In this letter, an area efficient architecture of a novel chaotic system for high randomness security is proposed. It consists of the chaotic logistic map and a novel component that efficiently combines it with a block cipher's key generation function. The proposed architecture operates as both a key scheduling/management scheme and a stream cipher. All operations are implemented in an FPGA with appropriate resource utilization techniques. The proposed architecture achieves smaller area consumption, minimum 41.5%, compared to published cryptography architectures and a 5.7% increase in throughput-to-area efficiency compared to published chaotic designs. Finally, it passes all NIST randomness tests, presents avalanche effect and produces the highest number of random bits with a single seed compared to other published security systems.