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Information-Theoretic Security

Definition

Information-theoretic security refers to a system’s security that relies solely on the principles of information theory, independent of computational power. This type of security implies that an adversary, even with unlimited computational resources, cannot gain any information about the encrypted message beyond what is already publicly known. It represents the highest possible level of cryptographic assurance, typically achieved through methods like the one-time pad. Such systems are theoretically unbreakable.