How It Works
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| constructs 4 packets, each containing one bit of her message and a valid MAC |
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adds 4 chaff packets with inverted bits and invalid MAC, shown in italics (chaffing) |
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discards packets with invalid MAC to recover the message (winnowing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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