A Secure Real-Time IoT Data Stream Based on Improved Compound Coupled Map Lattices

Abstract

A secure data stream is important for the real time communications of Internet of Things (IoT). A stream cipher with the characteristics of simple and high speed is suitable in the secure communications of IoT for its security. Some stream ciphers based on coupled map lattices (CML) were proposed. However, the original coupled map lattice shows evidence of correlation between the contiguous points. In this paper, we present an improved CML with a counter to overcome the weakness. The proposed scheme has the advantage of simplicity and suits the resource constrained IoT environment. We implement the proposed improved CML and analyze the proposed ciphers against some attacks. For the balance performance analysis, the numbers of 0 and 1 in the keystream are almost balanced, and the difference rates show that the proposed schemes have high key sensitivity. Finally, we present some experimental results of statistical random number tests for the output keystreams. Under the pass rates of the statistical test of NIST SP800-22, the proposed ciphers with improved CML, and compound CML are at least 95% and 97%, respectively. All the pass rates of the proposed stream ciphers are 100% for the statistical test of FIPS PUB 140-1.