@article {IOPORT.05833249, author = {Li, Chengqing and Arroyo, David and Lo, Kwok-Tung}, title = {Breaking a chaotic cryptographic scheme based on composition maps.}, year = {2010}, journal = {International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering}, volume = {20}, number = {8}, issn = {0218-1274}, pages = {2561-2568}, publisher = {World Scientific, Singapore}, doi = {10.1142/S0218127410027192}, abstract = {Summary: Recently a chaotic cryptographic scheme based on composition maps was proposed. This paper studies the security of the scheme and reports the following problems: (1) the scheme can be broken by a differential attack with $6 + \lceil \log _{L}(MN)\rceil $ chosen plaintexts, where $MN$ is the size of the plaintext and $L$ is the number of different elements in plaintext; (2)the two composition maps both do not work as a secure and efficient source of random numbers; (3)the scheme is not sensitive to the changes of the plaintext.}, identifier = {05833249}, }