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Secure Index Coding with Side Information

Information Theory 2010-11-29 v1 Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture math.IT

Abstract

Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the properties of linear coding schemes for the ICSI problem are further explored. The notion of weak security, considered by Bhattad and Narayanan (2005) in the context of network coding, is generalized to block security. It is shown that the coding scheme for the ICSI problem based on a linear code C of length n, minimum distance d and dual distance d^\perp, is (d-1-t)-block secure (and hence also weakly secure) if the adversary knows in advance t \le d - 2 messages, and is completely insecure if the adversary knows in advance more than n - d^\perp messages.

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@article{arxiv.1011.5566,
  title  = {Secure Index Coding with Side Information},
  author = {Son Hoang Dau and Vitaly Skachek and Yeow Meng Chee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5566},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages

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