Revisiting the Unicity Distance through a Channel Transmission Perspective
Information Theory
2024-10-22 v1 math.IT
Abstract
This paper revisits the classical notion of unicity distance from an enlightening perspective grounded in information theory, specifically by framing the encryption process as a noisy transmission channel. Using results from reliable communication theory, we derive a simple information-theoretic proof of the same unicity distance formula as in Shannon's classical result and a channel transmission interpretation of the unicity distance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.14816,
title = {Revisiting the Unicity Distance through a Channel Transmission Perspective},
author = {Fangyuan Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14816},
year = {2024}
}