“…Three general countermeasures have been proposed in the literature: 1) using more complex dynamical systems, such as high-dimensional hyperchaotic systems or multiple cascaded (heterogeneous) chaotic systems [Grassi & Mascolo, 1999a;Murali, 2000;Yao et al, 2003]; 2) introducing traditional ciphers into the chaotic cryptosystems Grassi & Mascolo, 1999b;Lian et al, 2003]; 3) introducing an impulsive (also named sporadic) driving signal instead of the continuous signal to realize synchronization He et al, 2000;Khadra et al, 2003]. The first countermeasure has been found insecure against some attacks [Short & Parker, 1998;Zhou & Lai, 1999;Huang et al, 2001;Tao et al, 2003], and some security defects of the second countermeasure have also been reported [Parker & Short, 2001], but the last one has not yet been cryptanalyzed to date.…”