For use in a wireless communication network that includes a transmitter
having a multi-element transmit antenna array, an information hiding
system and a method of hiding information. In one embodiment, the
information hiding system includes an information spreading subsystem
that is configured to scramble the information across the multi-element
transmit antenna array. The information hiding system further includes a
coherence modification subsystem that is configured to reduce channel
coherence randomly during transmission of the scrambled information via
the multi-element transmit antenna array. By hiding the information, the
information hiding system advantageously reduces an unauthorized
eavesdropper's ability to determine the contents of the transmitted
information.