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Security Improvement with Multiplexing for Optical Encryption Based on Cross-Correlation of Random Phase Masks

Kiyoshi Moritake, Atsushi Okamoto, Hisatoshi Funakoshi, Tomoyoshi Ito

Published Jan 18, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

Optical random phase encryption methods have the vulnerability of decoding by readout with only a part of correct key. To overcome this vulnerability, we propose a new method by multiplexing original data and dummy data.
DOI
10.1109/cleopr.2005.1569364

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