Introduction to Chaos. 2. Chaos-based Cryptography. 3. Digitized Chaos for Pseudo-Random Number Generation in Cryptography. 4. Formation of High-Dimensional Chaotic Maps and Their Uses in Cryptography. 5. Chaos based hash function. 6. Chaos-Based Video Encryption Algorithms. 7. Cryptanalysis of chaotic ciphers. 8. Lessons learnt from the cryptanalysis of chaos-based ciphers. 9. Hardware Implementation of chaos based cipher: Design of embedded systems for security applications. 10. Hardware implementation of chaos-secured optical communication systems. 11. Performance Evaluation of Chaotic and Conventional Encryption on Portable and Mobile Platforms.

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