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Covert communication can prevent the adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In the additive white Gaussian noise channels, a square root law is obtained and the result shows that Alice can reliably and covertly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Li Yang , Jianfeng Ma

Covert communication is often limited in rate because it is difficult to hide the signal in the background noise. Recent work has shown that jamming can significantly improve the rate at which covert communications can be conducted;…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Dennis Goeckel

Preventing signal detection in communication and active sensing requires careful control of transmission power. In fact, the square-root laws (SRL) for covert classical and quantum communication and sensing prescribe that the average output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Tianrui Tan , Evan J. D. Anderson , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

Information-theoretic secrecy, in particular the wiretap channel formulation, provides protection against interception of a message by adversary Eve and has been widely studied in the last two decades. In contrast, covert communications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Moslem Forouzesh , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Kai Kit Wong , Dennis Goeckel

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel, where the transmitter has causal or noncausal knowledge of the channel states. Here, "covert" means that a warden on the channel should observe similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ligong Wang , Ashish Khisti , Gregory W. Wornell

Secure communication is essential in covert and safety-critical settings where verbal interactions may expose user intent or operational context. Wearable gesture-based communication enables low-effort, nonverbal interaction, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tasnia Ashrafi Heya , Sayed Erfan Arefin

We determine the covert capacity for entanglement generation over a noisy quantum channel. While secrecy guarantees that the transmitted information remains inaccessible to an adversary, covert communication ensures that the transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ohad Kimelfeld , Boulat A. Bash , Uzi Pereg

We present a quantum secure direct communication protocol where the channels are not maximally entangled states. The communication parties utilize decoy photons to check eavesdropping. After ensuring the security of the quantum channel, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-19 Jian Wang , Quan Zhang , Chao-jing Tang

In this paper, we characterize the fundamental limits of a communication system with three users (i.e., three transmitters) and a single receiver where communication from two covert users must remain undetectable to an external warden. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

We consider covert communication using a queuing timing channel in the presence of a warden. The covert message is encoded using the inter-arrival times of the packets, and the legitimate receiver and the warden observe the inter-departure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Pritam Mukherjee , Sennur Ulukus

The covert capacity is characterized for a non-coherent fast Rayleigh-fading wireless channel, in which a legitimate user wishes to communicate reliably with a legitimate receiver while escaping detection from a warden. It is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Anne Savard , Matthieu R. Bloch

Secure quantum communication traditionally assumes that the adversary controls only the public channel. We consider a more powerful adversary who can demand private information of users. This type of adversary has been studied in public key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Trey Li

We demonstrate that secure communication using coherent states is possible. The optimal eavesdropping strategy for an M-ry ciphering scheme shows that the minimum probability of error in a measurement for bit determination can be made…

Covert communication can prevent an adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, a square root law is found that Alice can reliably and covertly transmit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma

The fundamental limit of Semantic Communications (joint source-channel coding) is established when the transmission needs to be kept covert from an external warden. We derive information-theoretic achievability and matching converse results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

We study the secrecy of an optical communication system with two scattering layers, to hide both the sender and receiver, by measuring the correlation of the intermediate speckle generated between the two layers. The binary message is…

We consider the problem of covert communication with random slot selection over binary-input Discrete Memoryless Channels and Additive White Gaussian Noise channels, in which a transmitter attempts to reliably communicate with a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Shi-Yuan Wang , Keerthi S. K. Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

When classical or quantum information is broadcast to separate receivers, there exist codes that encrypt the encoded data such that the receivers cannot recover it when performing local operations and classical communication, but they can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Cosmo Lupo , Mark M. Wilde , Seth Lloyd

We show that the quantum nature of light can be used to hide a secret message within a photograph. Using this physical principle we achieve information-theoretic secure steganography, which had remained elusive until now. The protocol is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bruno Sanguinetti , Anthony Martin , Giulia Traverso , Jonathan Lavoie , Hugo Zbinden

Optical key distribution (OKD) protects the physical layer of communication links by taking advantage of the inherent noise present in the photodetection process. It allows for efficient generation of a shared random key between two distant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Karol Łukanowski , Michał Wójcik , Stefano Olivares , Konrad Banaszek , Marcin Jarzyna