Encryption Algorithm Based on DNA Strand Displacement and DNA Sequence Operation

DNA strand displacement is introduced in this study and used to construct an analog DNA strand displacement chaotic system based on six reaction modules in nanoscale size. The DNA strand displacement circuit is employed in encryption as a chaotic generator to produce chaotic sequences. In the encryption algorithm, we convert chaotic sequences to binary ones by comparing the concentration of signal DNA strand. Simulation results show that the encryption scheme is sensitive to the keys, and key space is large enough to resist the brute-force attacks, furthermore algorithm has a high capacity to resist statistic attack. Based on robustness analysis, our proposed encryption scheme is robust to the DNA strand displacement reaction rate control, noise and concentration detection to a certain extent.