Practical physical-layer encryption: The marriage of optical noise with traditional cryptography

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 74-81

  Kanter, Gregory S ^a   Reilly, Daniel ^a   Smith, Neil ^a  

^a NuCrypt

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADD/DROP; CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS; DATA RATES; ENCRYPTION PROTOCOLS; HIGH-SPEED; LONG HAUL OPTICAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; OPTICAL NOISE; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHYSICAL EFFECTS;

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70449503952     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2009.5307469     Document Type: Article

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