Secure Arithmetic Coding Using Interval Splitting
Hyungjin Kim, John D. Villasenor, Jiangtao Wen · 2006
We present a modified approach to arithmetic coding in which the overall length within the range (0, 1) allocated to each symbol is preserved, but the traditional assumption that a single contiguous interval is used for each symbol is removed. A key known to both the encoder and decoder is used to describe where the intervals are split prior to encoding each new symbol. The repeated splitting has the effect of both scrambling the intervals and altering their lengths, thereby allowing both encryption and compression to be obtained simultaneously.