• DocumentCode
    640148
  • Title

    The Kraft inequality for EPS systems

  • Author

    Uduwerelle, Chinthani ; Chan, Thomas ; Siu-Wai Ho

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Telecommun. Res., Univ. of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    7-12 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    1546
  • Lastpage
    1550
  • Abstract
    It is a well known result that the Kraft inequality is a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a uniquely decodable code. This paper provides an inequality which is a counterpart of the Kraft inequality in Error free Perfect Secrecy (EPS) system. Our inequality is a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an EPS system. It also illustrates some necessary and sufficient conditions for an EPS system to achieve the minimal expected key consumption.
  • Keywords
    cryptography; decoding; EPS system; Kraft inequality; error free perfect secrecy; necessary and sufficient condition; uniquely decodable code; Cryptography; Encoding; Entropy; Joints; Probability distribution; Random variables;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • ISSN
    2157-8095
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620486
  • Filename
    6620486