Separability and the Detection of Hidden Channels

Abstract This paper formalises and examines a method that is supposed to highlight the absence or otherwise of unknown channels in a system. The method uses separability and cutting channels. Separability has been formalised elsewhere; formalising cutting channels is a main contribution of this paper. Another contribution is determining an important property of the method.

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