IEEE Internet of Things Journal, cilt.11, sa.6, ss.10214-10223, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
To provide robust security measures for audio data during transmission, this article has developed a novel dual-channel audio encryption scheme based on chaos theory. Specifically, a new 2-D chaotic system called 2-D infinite collapse with logistic map (2-D-ICLM) is designed in this article. Compared to traditional 2-D chaotic systems, the 2-D-ICLM exhibits a larger parameter space, complexity, and richness, along with high unpredictability and randomness. These characteristics provide potential advantages and applications in the field of encryption. In the proposed encryption scheme, audio information serves as input to a hash function, which generates the initial values and parameters for the 2-D-ICLM, producing the keystream for the cryptographic system. Considering the correlation between the two channels of audio information, the information from the left and right channels is fused to create a new audio signal for encryption. Scrambling and diffusion processes are performed synchronously in the encryption algorithm, with the ciphertext information from the left channel utilized in the encryption of the right channel audio. The experimental results prove the effectiveness of the suggested audio encryption technique, effectively countering various conventional attack methods and showcasing its robust security features. The correlation of adjacent elements of ciphertext audio is 0.0013, the NSCR and UACI is around 0.9960 and 0.3345, and the efficiency is 0.0003 s/KB.