Study of Chaotic-based Audio Encryption Algorithms: A Review

Abstract

Nowadays, multimedia communication has become very widespread and this requires it to be protected from attackers and transmitted securely for reliability. Encryption and decryption techniques are useful in providing effective security for speech signals to ensure that these signals are transmitted with secure data and prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages. Due to the rapid improvement in digital communications over the recent period up to the present, the security of voice data transmitted over various networks has been classified as a favored field of study in earlier years. The contributions to audio encryption are discussed in this review. This Comprehensive review mainly focuses on presenting several kinds of methods for audio encryption and decryption the analysis of these methods with their advantages and disadvantages have been investigated thoroughly. It will be classified into encryption based on traditional methods and encryption based on advanced chaotic systems. They are divided into two types, continuous-time system, and discrete-time system, and also classified based on the synchronization method and the implementation method. In the fields of information and communications security, system designers face many challenges in both cost, performance, and architecture design, Field Programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an excellent balance between computational power and processing flexibility. In addition, encryption methods will be classified based on Chaos-based Pseudo Random Bit Generator, Fractional-order systems, and hybrid chaotic generator systems, which is an advantageous point for this review compared with previous ones. Audio algorithms are presented, discussed, and compared, highlighting important advantages and disadvantages. Audio signals have a large volume and a strong correlation between data samples. Therefore, if traditional cryptography systems are used to encrypt such huge data, they gain significant overhead. Standard symmetric encryption systems also have a small key-space, which makes them vulnerable to attacks. On the other hand, encryption by asymmetric algorithms is not ideal due to low processing speed and complexity. Therefore, great importance has been given to using chaotic theory to encode audio files. Therefore, when proposing an appropriate encryption method to ensure a high degree of security, the key space, which is the critical part of every encryption system, and the key sensitivity must be taken into account. The key sensitivity is related to the initial values and control variables of the chaotic system chosen as the audio encryption algorithm. In addition, the proposed algorithm should eliminate the problems of periodic windows, such as limited chaotic range and non-uniform distribution, and the quality of the recovered audio signal remains good, which confirms the convenience, reliability, and high security.