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A New Secret key Agreement Scheme in a Four-Terminal Network

Cryptography and Security 2011-03-29 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

A new scenario for generating a secret key and two private keys among three Terminals in the presence of an external eavesdropper is considered. Terminals 1, 2 and 3 intend to share a common secret key concealed from the external eavesdropper (Terminal 4) and simultaneously, each of Terminals 1 and 2 intends to share a private key with Terminal 3 while keeping it concealed from each other and from Terminal 4. All four Terminals observe i.i.d. outputs of correlated sources and there is a public channel from Terminal 3 to Terminals 1 and 2. An inner bound of the "secret key-private keys capacity region" is derived and the single letter capacity regions are obtained for some special cases.

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@article{arxiv.1103.5197,
  title  = {A New Secret key Agreement Scheme in a Four-Terminal Network},
  author = {Parisa Babaheidarian and Somayeh Salimi and Mohammad Reza Aref},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5197},
  year   = {2011}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures