The Role of Information Theory in Cryptography
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This paper reviews the relations between information theory and cryptography, from Shannon's foundation of information theory to the most recent developments in unconditionally-secure key-agreement protocols. For a long time, information theory has mainly been used in cryptography to prove lower bounds on the size of the secret key required to achieve a certain level of security in secrecy and authentication systems. More recent results on a slightly extended model suggest that perfect secrecy is practically possible with only a short secret key, thus apparently contradicting Shannon's lower bound on the key size of a perfect cipher.
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