Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems

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Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems is Claude Shannon’s foundational paper that established the mathematical basis of modern cryptography and information-theoretic security.

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  • Claude Shannon’s paper "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" ×1
  • information-theoretic cryptography ×1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf journal article
scientific paper
appliesConcept entropy
equivocation
mutual information
author Claude E. Shannon
Claude Shannon
basedOnWorkCompletedDuring World War II
citedAs Shannon 1949 secrecy paper
conclusion unbreakable secrecy is possible with appropriate key and system design
countryOfPublication United States
definesConcept perfect secrecy
demonstrates limits of secrecy with finite key length
relationship between redundancy and cryptanalytic effort
establishesConditionFor perfect secrecy
field communication theory
cryptography
information theory
hasAbbreviation CTSS
hasCentralConcept redundancy of the language
uncertainty of the key
unicity distance
impact formalization of secrecy in probabilistic terms
foundation of information-theoretic security
influencedField information-theoretic cryptography
modern cryptography
secure communications
introducesConcept information-theoretic security
language English
originalCompletionYear 1945
pages 656–715
publicationYear 1949
publishedIn Bell System Technical Journal
publisher Bell Telephone Laboratories
relatedWork A Mathematical Theory of Communication
showsPropertyOf one-time pad
perfectly secret cipher
subjectOf historical analyses of cryptography
surveys on information-theoretic security
topic cipher systems
cryptanalysis
encryption
key distribution
one-time pad
secrecy systems
usesModel noisy communication channel
stochastic processes
volume 28

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Claude Shannon
Ueli Maurer ("information-theoretic cryptography")
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CTSS ("Claude Shannon’s paper "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems"")
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CTSS
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