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IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2008 E91-D(11):2742-2745; doi:10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.11.2742
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Copyright © 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Regular Section -- Letters -- Speech and Hearing

An OFDM-Based Speech Encryption System without Residual Intelligibility

Der-Chang TSENG1 and Jung-Hui CHIU2

1 The author is with the Dept. of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 106, Taiwan. E-mail: dctseng{at}ntut.edu.tw, 2 The author is with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, 333, Taiwan. E-mail: jhchiu{at}mail.cgu.edu.tw


  Abstract

Since an FFT-based speech encryption system retains a considerable residual intelligibility, such as talk spurts and the original intonation in the encrypted speech, this makes it easy for eavesdroppers to deduce the information contents from the encrypted speech. In this letter, we propose a new technique based on the combination of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme and an appropriate QAM mapping method to remove the residual intelligibility from the encrypted speech by permuting several frequency components. In addition, the proposed OFDM-based speech encryption system needs only two FFT operations instead of the four required by the FFT-based speech encryption system. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of this proposed technique.

Key Words: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), speech encryption system, residual intelligibility

Manuscript received April 10, 2008. Manuscript revised July 8, 2008.


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