Finite-blocklength performance of polar wiretap codes under a total variation secrecy constraint

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Main Authors: Luzzi, Laura, Bioglio, Valerio
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Published: 2026
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author Luzzi, Laura
Bioglio, Valerio
author_facet Luzzi, Laura
Bioglio, Valerio
contents We study the performance of polarizing codes over a degraded symmetric wiretap channel under a total variation distance (TVD) secrecy constraint. We show that the leakage can be bounded by the sum of the TVDs of the bit-channels corresponding to the confidential and frozen bits. In the asymptotic regime, this gives a new criterion to design wiretap codes with vanishing TVD leakage. In finite blocklength, it allows us to compute lower bounds for the secrecy rate of different families of polarizing wiretap codes over a binary erasure wiretap channel.
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spellingShingle Finite-blocklength performance of polar wiretap codes under a total variation secrecy constraint
Luzzi, Laura
Bioglio, Valerio
Information Theory
We study the performance of polarizing codes over a degraded symmetric wiretap channel under a total variation distance (TVD) secrecy constraint. We show that the leakage can be bounded by the sum of the TVDs of the bit-channels corresponding to the confidential and frozen bits. In the asymptotic regime, this gives a new criterion to design wiretap codes with vanishing TVD leakage. In finite blocklength, it allows us to compute lower bounds for the secrecy rate of different families of polarizing wiretap codes over a binary erasure wiretap channel.
title Finite-blocklength performance of polar wiretap codes under a total variation secrecy constraint
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28109