title: Information encryption in phase space.
abstract: In this Letter, we propose an information encryption technique based on the theory of phase-space optics. We show that encoding the plaintext in phase space provides a higher level of security: first, the key-space is significantly enlarged. Second, it is immune to various known-plaintext (cyphertext) attacks to which the double-random phase encryption (DRPE) is vulnerable. Third, the bilinearity of phase-space distributions offers additional security. Theoretical analysis and numerical calculation results show that the proposed technique has significantly different responses to errors added to the cypheretext and the two phase keys in comparison to the classical DRPE.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiaobin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Quanying
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.forename: Guohai
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Situ