Design of Lightweight Chaos based Cryptographic Primitives: A Comparative Analysis

CONTEXT: Due to enormous efforts in the development of phenomenal chaos and its desirable properties, various researchers have expressed an interest in developing secure and reliable cryptography primitives by incorporating its benedictory properties. But incorrect implementations of chaos and dependence on dubious finite precision technologies could lead to contradicting results.  OBJECTIVE: The aims of this research is to delineate the degree of chaoticity and its attribute utilization in the construction of cryptography primitives as a research arena for their security and dependability.  METHOD: This work uses a comparative analysis to present the method of design of chaos-based cryptographic primitives. The study makes use of a panoramic collection of distinguished publications that have appeared in distinguished conferences and journals over the past three decades. An in-depth comparative analysis on lightweight implementations of chaos based cryptographic primitives is presented using standard metrics. RESULTS: Research leveraging chaotic nonlinear systems to design cryptography primitives is classified into several domains. Chaos implementations in both analog and digital mode that were integrated in the design of cryptography primitives research are presented. Reports the evaluation metrics used to verify the algorithms. Results of several chaos-fixated implementations that have been compared across differing experiments are reported.  CONCLUSION: The research is useful in determining the progress of chaos-based implementations in several scientific disciplines pertaining to the design of cryptographic primitives.