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Developed an information-theoretic framework for secrecy systems, including formal treatment of equivocation and perfect secrecy under the paper’s stated assumptions.
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Claude E. Shannon
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Shannon: communication theory of secrecy systems
Developed an information-theoretic framework for secrecy systems, including formal treatment of equivocation and perfect secrecy under the paper’s stated assumptions.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact declassified 1949 Bell System Technical Journal paper. The earlier confidential report, Shannon’s communication paper, computational security, public-key cryptography and modern protocol definitions remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Claude E. Shannon
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.