PMID- 35776758 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220707 LR - 20220725 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 7 DP - 2022 TI - Implementation of synchronization of multi-fractional-order of chaotic neural networks with a variety of multi-time-delays: Studying the effect of double encryption for text encryption. PG - e0270402 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0270402 [doi] LID - e0270402 AB - This research proposes the idea of double encryption, which is the combination of chaos synchronization of non-identical multi-fractional-order neural networks with multi-time-delays (FONNSMD) and symmetric encryption. Symmetric encryption is well known to be outstanding in speed and accuracy but less effective. Therefore, to increase the strength of data protection effectively, we combine both methods where the secret keys are generated from the third part of the neural network systems (NNS) and used only once to encrypt and decrypt the message. In addition, a fractional-order Lyapunov direct function (FOLDF) is designed and implemented in sliding mode control systems (SMCS) to maintain the convergence of approximated synchronization errors. Finally, three examples are carried out to confirm the theoretical analysis and find which synchronization is achieved. Then the result is combined with symmetric encryption to increase the security of secure communication, and a numerical simulation verifies the method's accuracy. FAU - Abd Latiff, Fatin Nabila AU - Abd Latiff FN AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9768-8291 AD - Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. FAU - Mior Othman, Wan Ainun AU - Mior Othman WA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7758-5057 AD - Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220701 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 SB - IM MH - Communication MH - Computer Simulation MH - Neural Networks, Computer MH - *Records MH - *Research PMC - PMC9249245 COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2022/07/02 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/08 06:00 PMCR- 2022/07/01 CRDT- 2022/07/01 13:52 PHST- 2022/04/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/06/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/07/01 13:52 [entrez] PHST- 2022/07/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-22-11404 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0270402 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2022 Jul 1;17(7):e0270402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270402. eCollection 2022.