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The design and selection of the radiated waveforms, while respecting the prescribed spectrum occupancy, has to comply with the contrasting requirements of LPI\/LPE and of a favorable shape of the ambiguity function. Information theory seems to be a \u201ctechnologically agnostic\u201d tool to attempt to quantify the LPI\/LPE capability of noise waveforms with little, or absent, a priori knowledge of the means and the strategies used by the counterpart. 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