Data Encryption Using ECG Signals with Chaotic Henon Map

Author

Chen, Ching-Kun ; Lin, Chun-Liang ; Chiu, Yen-Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals varying from person to person, it could possibly be applied as a tool for biometric recognition. This paper attempts to introduce an individual feature of ECG with a chaotic Henon map for cryptography. The encryption system utilizes a portable instrument (Heart Pal) to collect ECG signals from the encrypted person and applies an intelligent algorithm based on Chaos theory to generate initial keys for chaotic Henon map. High quality randomness of ECG signals results in a widely expanded key space which would be an ideal key generator for data encryption.

Keywords

chaos; cryptography; electrocardiography; image coding; biometric recognition; chaos theory; chaotic henon map; cryptography; data encryption; electrocardiogram signals; image encryption; intelligent algorithm; key generator; Biometrics; Chaos; Chaotic communication; Cryptography; Electrocardiography; Heart; Humans; Image reconstruction; Information security; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5941-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5943-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2010.5480266

Filename

5480266