Chaos coordinated neural key synchronization for enhancing security of IoT

Abstract

The key exchange mechanism in this paper is built utilizing neural network coordination and a hyperchaotic (or chaotic) nonlinear dynamic complex system. This approach is used to send and receive sensitive data between Internet-of-Things (IoT) nodes across a public network. Using phishing, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM), or spoofing attacks, an attacker can easily target sensitive information during the exchange process. Furthermore, minimal research has been made on the exchange of input seed values for creating identical input at both ends of neural networks. The proposed method uses a 5D hyperchaotic or chaotic nonlinear complex structure to ensure the sharing of input seed value across two neural networks, resulting in the identical input on both ends. This study discusses two ways for sharing seed values for neural coordination. The first is a chaotic system with all real variables, whereas the second is a hyperchaotic system with at least one complex variable. Each neural network has its own random weight vector, and the outputs are exchanged. It achieves full coordination in some stages by altering the neuronal weights according to the mutual learning law. The coordinated weights are utilized as a key after the neural coordination technique. The network’s core structure is made up of triple concealed layers. So, determining the inner configuration will be tough for the intruder. The efficiency of the suggested model is validated by simulations, and the findings reveal that the suggested strategy outperforms current equivalent techniques.