MARCS: A Novel Secure Hybrid Chaotic System

Chaotic systems have established an important place in the generation of random sequences for the protection of vital confidential data. In the paper, we propose a novel secure hybrid chaotic system ‘MARCS’ consisting of control parameters, modulo operations, and three one-dimensional chaotic maps logistic, sine, and exponential maps combined in a nonlinear manner to achieve high complexity and characteristics necessarily required for high information security applications. We analyze its performance by examining chaotic and randomness properties to evaluate its security strength. The simulation results reveal that the proposed hybrid chaotic system MARCS possesses strong chaotic and randomness properties. Thus, MARCS can be incorporated in the design of secure information systems for meeting the high information security requirements.