A fast and light stream cipher for smartphones

We present a stream cipher based on a chaotic dynamical system. Using a chaotic trajectory sampled under certain rules in order to avoid any attempt to reconstruct the original one, we create a binary pseudo-random keystream that can only be exactly reproduced by someone that has fully knowledge of the communication system parameters formed by a transmitter and a receiver, sharing the same initial conditions. The plaintext is XOR’ed with the keystream creating the ciphertext, the encrypted message. This keystream passes the NIST’s randomness test and has been implemented in a videoconference App for smartphones, in order to show the fast and light nature of the proposed encryption system.