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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Multi-channel approach for secure optical image encryption

Romil Audhkhasi, Michelle L. Povinelli

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a generalized encryption scheme suited for transmission of image data on multiple wavelength channels. Our key space size grows double-exponentially with number of channels, ensuring security against both brute-force and more sophisticated attacks.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2022.jth3a.18

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