Construction of wiretap codes from ordinary channel codes

Abstract

From an arbitrary given channel code over a discrete or Gaussian memoryless channel, we construct a wiretap code with the strong security. Our construction can achieve the wiretap capacity under mild assumptions. The key tool is the new privacy amplification theorem bounding the eavesdropped information in terms of the Gallager function.Comment: 5 pages, no figure, IEEEtran.cls. Submitted to 2010 IEEE ISI