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In this paper, we propose an algorithm that targets contamination and eavesdropping adversaries. We consider the case when the number of independent packets available to the eavesdropper is less than the multicast capacity of the network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Yejun Zhou , Hui Li , Jianfeng Ma

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the spatial variability of the radio channel response in a rich…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of oblivious transfer via noisy channels. We also investigate oblivious transfer over a noisy multiple-access channel with two non-colluding senders and a single receiver. The channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hadi Aghaee , Bahareh Akhbari , Christian Deppe

In this work, the critical role of noisy feedback in enhancing the secrecy capacity of the wiretap channel is established. Unlike previous works, where a noiseless public discussion channel is used for feedback, the feed-forward and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lifeng Lai , Hesham El Gamal , H. Vincent Poor

In order to combat the spoofing of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals we propose a novel approach for satellite signal authentication based on information-theoretic security. In particular we superimpose to the navigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-19 Francesco Formaggio , Stefano Tomasin

In this article, we investigate strategic information transmission over a noisy channel. This problem has been widely investigated in Economics, when the communication channel is perfect. Unlike in Information Theory, both encoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mael Le Treust , Tristan Tomala

We consider the task of anonymously transmitting a quantum message in a network. We present a protocol that accomplishes this task using the W state and we analyze its performance in a quantum network where some form of noise is present. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Victoria Lipinska , Gláucia Murta , Stephanie Wehner

This paper presents a method of cryptographic key distribution using an `artificially' noisy channel. This is an important development because, while it is known that a noisy channel can be used to generate unconditional secrecy, there are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Benjamin T. H. Varcoe

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or modify data belonging to the latter. Typical approaches for spoofing detection in the physical layer declare an attack when a change is observed in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Daniel Romero , Tien Ngoc Ha , Peter Gerstoft

In a wireless sensor network, data from various sensors are gathered to estimate the system-state of the process system. However, adversaries aim at distorting the system-state estimate, for which they may infiltrate sensors or position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin , Roman Bessel , H. Vincent Poor

Most electronic devices utilize mechanical keyboards to receive inputs, including sensitive information such as authentication credentials, personal and private data, emails, plans, etc. However, these systems are susceptible to acoustic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alireza Taheritajar , Zahra Mahmoudpour Harris , Reza Rahaeimehr

The growing need for reliable communication over untrusted networks has caused a renewed interest in adversarial channel models, which often behave much differently than traditional stochastic channel models. Of particular practical use is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Vinayak Suresh , Eric Ruzomberka , David J. Love

The paper presents a novel approach of spoofing wireless signals by using a general adversarial network (GAN) to generate and transmit synthetic signals that cannot be reliably distinguished from intended signals. It is of paramount…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Yi Shi , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu

In this paper we consider authentication at the physical layer, in which the authenticator aims at distinguishing a legitimate supplicant from an attacker on the basis of the characteristics of a set of parallel wireless channels, which are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Ennio Gambi

We consider the secure communication problem for broadcasting of two encrypted sources. The sender wishes to broadcast two secret messages via two common key cryptosystems. We assume that the adversary can use the side-channel, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Bagus Santoso , Yasutada Oohama

New applications in modern communications are demanding robust and ultra-reliable low latency information exchange such as machine-to-machine and human-to-machine communications. For many of these applications, the identification approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Wafa Labidi , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

In this paper, we consider the authentication problem where a candidate measurement presented by an unidentified user is compared to a previously stored measurement of the legitimate user, the enrollment, with respect to a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Farshad Naghibi , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Providing security guarantees for wireless communication is critically important for today's applications. While previous work in this area has concentrated on radio frequency (RF) channels, providing security guarantees for RF channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Amine Laourine , Aaron B. Wagner

This paper investigates the impact of authentication on effective capacity (EC) of an underwater acoustic (UWA) channel. Specifically, the UWA channel is under impersonation attack by a malicious node (Eve) present in the close vicinity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Waqas Aman , Zeeshan Haider , S. Waqas H. Shah , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Octavia A. Dobre

Short-range audio channels have a few distinguishing characteristics: ease of use, low deployment costs, and easy to tune frequencies, to cite a few. Moreover, thanks to their seamless adaptability to the security context, many techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Maurantonio Caprolu , Savio Sciancalepore , Roberto Di Pietro