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Transmission security (TRANSEC) methods are one option for physical-layer security and are a critical area of research with the increasing reliance on the Internet of Things (IoT); most such devices use standard low-power Time-division multiple access (TDMA) or frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) protocols susceptible to reverse engineering. This paper provides a hardware validation of previously proposed techniques for the intentional injection of noise into the phase mapping process of a spread spectrum signal used within a receiver-assigned code division multiple access (RA-CDMA) framework, which decreases an eavesdropper\u2019s ability to directly observe the true phase and reverse engineer the associated PRNG output or key and thus the spreading sequence, even at high SNRs. This technique trades a conscious reduction in signal correlation processing for enhanced obfuscation, with a slight hardware resource utilization increase of less than 2% of Adaptive Logic Modules (ALMs), solidifying this work as a low-power technique. 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