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A sample identifying complexity and a sample deciphering time have been introduced in a previous study to capture an estimation error and a computation time of system identification by adversaries. The quantities play a crucial role in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Kaoru Teranishi , Kiminao Kogiso

In this paper will be presented new approach to entropy coding: family of generalizations of standard numeral systems which are optimal for encoding sequence of equiprobable symbols, into asymmetric numeral systems - optimal for freely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Jarek Duda

Estimation of Shannon and R\'enyi entropies of unknown discrete distributions is a fundamental problem in statistical property testing and an active research topic in both theoretical computer science and information theory. Tight bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tongyang Li , Xiaodi Wu

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been successfully used in fields such as parameter estimation, system identification and the supervised machine learning. There is in general no explicit expression for the optimal MEE estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Badong Chen , Guangmin Wang , Nanning Zheng , Jose C. Principe

This paper introduces an objective metric for evaluating a parsing scheme. It is based on Shannon's original work with letter sequences, which can be extended to part-of-speech tag sequences. It is shown that this regular language is an…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Caroline Lyon , Stephen Brown

This paper introduces a numerical framework for establishing lower bounds on the conditional von-Neumann entropy in device-independent quantum cryptography and randomness extraction scenarios. Leveraging a hierarchy of semidefinite programs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

We consider a Shannon cipher system for memoryless sources, in which distortion is allowed at the legitimate decoder. The source is compressed using a rate distortion code secured by a shared key, which satisfies a constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

The advent of quantum computing poses a critical threat to RSA cryptography, as Shor's algorithm can factor integers in polynomial time. While post-quantum cryptography standards offer long-term solutions, their deployment faces significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ruopengyu Xu , Chenglian Liu

Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybrid classical-quantum architecture, have recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum key distribution requires tight and reliable bounds on the secret key rate to ensure robust security. This is particularly so for the regime of finite block sizes, where the optimization of generalized R\'enyi entropic quantities is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Rebecca R. B. Chung , Nelly H. Y. Ng , Yu Cai

This paper is the part-II of the previous paper and introduces the world of Yuen's concept. In the theory of cryptology, the Shannon impossibility theorem states that the upper bound of the security of a plaintext against a ciphertext-only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Osamu Hirota

Entropy estimation plays a significant role in biology, economics, physics, communication engineering and other disciplines. It is increasingly used in software engineering, e.g. in software confidentiality, software testing, predictive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ilaria Pia la Torre , David A. Kelly , Hector D. Menendez , David Clark

All the currently available unconditional security proofs on quantum key distribution, in particular for the BB84 protocol and its variants including continuous-variable ones, are invalid or incomplete at many points. In this paper we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Horace P. Yuen

Equivocation rate has been widely used as an information-theoretic measure of security after Shannon[10]. It simplifies problems by removing the effect of atypical behavior from the system. In [9], however, Merhav and Arikan considered the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-01 Chung Chan

Shannon entropy is the most crucial foundation of Information Theory, which has been proven to be effective in many fields such as communications. Renyi entropy and Chernoff information are other two popular measures of information with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Shanyun Liu , Rui She , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan

Quantum cryptography is going to find practically useful applications. Recently some first quantum cryptographic solutions became available on the market. For clients it is important to be able to compare the quality and properties of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 A. S. Trushechkin , I. V. Volovich

In this paper, we propose a framework of source encryption, where cryptographic processing is applied to a prescribed fixed length source code. The proposed source encryption framework is based on the secure communication framework of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

Fundamental results on secret sharing schemes (SSSs) are discussed in the setting where security and share size are measured by (conditional) min-entropies. We first formalize a unified framework of SSSs based on (conditional) R\'enyi…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mitsugu Iwamoto , Junji Shikata

We consider a cryptographically motivated framework for quantum metrology in the presence of a malicious adversary. We begin by devising an estimation strategy for a (potentially) altered resource (due to a malicious adversary) and quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nathan Shettell , Elham Kashefi , Damian Markham