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Viscous fluid stirring creates cryptographic hashes from particle arrangements. This chaotic fluidic map offers a novel approach for secure information processing and microfluidic applications.

Area of Science:

  • Fluid dynamics
  • Information theory
  • Cryptography

Background:

  • Fluids can store and manipulate information, with applications in digital logic and self-assembly.
  • Controllable hydrodynamic chaos in viscous fluids is known for efficient mixing but underexplored for digital information manipulation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the potential of chaotic fluidic systems for cryptographic applications.
  • To demonstrate that chaotic stirring signatures can function as cryptographic hash functions.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzing particle arrangements in stirred viscous fluids to identify characteristic signatures.
  • Evaluating these signatures against cryptographic hash function requirements like collision avoidance and divergence.
  • Investigating hashing dynamics using interparticle winding statistics.
Keywords:
braidingencryptionfluid dynamicsmixingnonlinear dynamics

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Main Results:

  • Chaotic stirring of viscous fluids generates signatures satisfying cryptographic hash function requirements.
  • Noninvertibility and a broad chaotic attractor facilitate strong divergence and prevent collisions.
  • Unexpected mechanisms, like incomplete mixing, lead to hyperuniform hash distributions.

Conclusions:

  • Chaotic fluidic maps provide a physically motivated method for implementing deterministic chaotic maps in cryptography.
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