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The Wire-Tap Channel
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We consider the situation in which digital data is to be reliably transmitted over a discrete, memoryless channel (dmc) that is subjected to a wire-tap at the receiver. We assume that the wire-tapper views the channel output via a second dmc). Encoding by the transmitter and decoding by the receiver are permitted. However, the code books used in these operations are assumed to be known by the wire-tapper. The designer attempts to build the encoder-decoder in such a way as to maximize the transmission rate R, and the equivocation d of the data as seen by the wire-tapper. In this paper, we find the trade-off curve between R and d, assuming essentially perfect (“error-free”) transmission. In particular, if d is equal to Hs, the entropy of the data source, then we consider that the transmission is accomplished in perfect secrecy. Our results imply that there exists a Cs> 0, such that reliable transmission at rates up to Csis possible in approximately perfect secrecy.
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- Authors
- Wyner, A. D.
- Venue
- Bell System Technical Journal
- Published
- 1975-10
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1355-1387
- ISSN
- 0005-8580 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2043769961
- Cited by
- 7,075
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 7.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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