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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Security Analysis of Stealth Transmission over a public Fiber-Optical Network

Bernard B. Wu, Ivan Glesk, Paul R. Prucnal, Evgenii E. Narimanov

Published May 1, 2007• 4 citations
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Abstract

We analyze the security performance of stealth communications over a public fiber-optical network. We examine system's vulnerability against various eavesdropping strategies and construct a metric to evaluate the level of security in the stealth transmission.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2007.4452691

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