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We extend covert communication to the quantum regime by showing that covert quantum communication is possible over optical channels with noise arising either from the environment or from the sender's lab. In particular, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Valerio Scarani

Speaker verification is a task of confirming an individual's identity through the analysis of their voice. Whispered speech differs from phonated speech in acoustic characteristics, which degrades the performance of speaker verification…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Magdalena Gołębiowska , Piotr Syga

AI agents are increasingly deployed to interact with other agents on behalf of users and organizations. We ask whether two such agents, operated by different entities, can carry out a parallel secret conversation while still producing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Or Zamir

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

The widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) supports large-scale voice surveillance, raising concerns about privacy among users. In this paper, we concentrate on using adversarial examples to mitigate unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Derui Wang , Yedi Zhang , Minhui Xue , Jie Hao , Jin Song Dong , Yixian Yang

Harnessing a block-sparse prior to recover signals through underdetermined linear measurements has been extensively shown to allow exact recovery in conditions where classical compressed sensing would provably fail. We exploit this result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Urbashi Mitra

Secrecy encoding for remote state estimation in the presence of adversarial eavesdroppers is a well studied problem. Typical existing secrecy encoding schemes rely on the transmitter's knowledge of the remote estimator's current…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Justin M. Kennedy , Jason J. Ford , Daniel E. Quevedo , Falko Dressler

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

A novel semantic communication (SC)-assisted secrecy transmission framework is proposed. In particular, the legitimate transmitter (Tx) sends the superimposed semantic and bit stream to the legitimate receiver (Rx), where the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

We present a framework for the design of coding mechanisms that allow remotely operating anomaly detectors in a privacy-preserving manner. We consider the following problem setup. A remote station seeks to identify anomalies based on system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Haleh Hayati , Nathan van de Wouw , Carlos Murguia

Unlike conventional anti-eavesdropping methods that always require additional energy or computing resources (e.g., in friendly jamming and cryptography-based solutions), this work proposes a novel anti-eavesdropping solution that comes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nguyen Van Huynh , Nguyen Quang Hieu , Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Smart devices serviced by large-scale AI models necessitates user data transfer to the cloud for inference. For speech applications, this means transferring private user information, e.g., speaker identity. Our paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Md Asif Jalal , Pablo Peso Parada , Jisi Zhang , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Mete Ozay , Myoungji Han , Jung In Lee , Seokyeong Jung

We consider the problem of secure communication with multi-antenna transmission in fading channels. The transmitter simultaneously transmits an information bearing signal to the intended receiver and artificial noise to the eavesdroppers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

Directly sending audio signals from a transmitter to a receiver across a noisy channel may absorb consistent bandwidth and be prone to errors when trying to recover the transmitted bits. On the contrary, the recent semantic communication…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Eleonora Grassucci , Christian Marinoni , Andrea Rodriguez , Danilo Comminiello

In this paper, a high dimensional chaotic systems based mixed keystream generator is proposed to secure the voice data. As the voice-based communication becomes extensively vital in the application areas of military, voice over IP,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Musheer Ahmad , Bashir Alam , Omar Farooq

We propose an artificial-noise alignment scheme for multicasting a common-confidential message to a group of receivers. Our scheme transmits a superposition of information and noise symbols. The noise symbols are aligned at each legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Ashish Khist , Dongye Zhang

This paper investigates the problem of source-channel coding for secure transmission with arbitrarily correlated side informations at both receivers. This scenario consists of an encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

Widely-deployed encryption-based security prevents unauthorized decoding, but does not ensure undetectability of communication. However, covert, or low probability of detection/intercept (LPD/LPI) communication is crucial in many scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Hiding messages for countless security purposes has become a highly fascinating subject nowadays. Encryption facilitates the data hiding. With the express development of technology, people tend to figure out a method capable of hiding a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sachith Dassanayaka

Automatic detection of speaker confidence is critical for adaptive computing but remains constrained by limited labelled data and the subjectivity of paralinguistic annotations. This paper proposes a semi-supervised hybrid framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Adam Wynn , Jingyun Wang