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'''Stressed environment''':  In [[Social:Radio|radio]] communications, an environment that is under the influence of extrinsic factors that degrade [[Biology:Communication|communication]]s integrity, such as when (a) the benign communications [[Physics:Transmission medium|medium]] is disturbed by natural or man-made events (such as an intentional nuclear burst), (b) the received signal is degraded by natural or man-made [[Physics:Interference (communication)|interference]] (such as jamming signals or [[Physics:Co-channel interference|co-channel interference]]), (c) an interfering signal can reconfigure the [[Telecommunications network|network]], and/or (d) an adversary threatens successful communications, in which case radio signals may be encrypted in order to deny the adversary an intelligible [[Social:Message|message]], traffic flow [[Information|information]], network information, or [[Automatic link establishment|automatic link establishment]] (ALE) control information.
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