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Wyner's work on wiretap channels and the recent works on information theoretic security are based on random codes. Achieving information theoretical security with practical coding schemes is of definite interest. In this note, the attempt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-09 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Hesham El Gamal

We explore connections between secret sharing and secret key agreement, which yield a simple and scalable multiterminal key agreement protocol. In our construction, we use error-correcting codes, specifically Reed-Solomon codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Benjamin D. Kim , Daniel Alabi , Lav R. Varshney

We consider the secret key generation problem when sources are randomly excited by the sender and there is a noiseless public discussion channel. Our setting is thus similar to recent works on channels with action-dependent states where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tzu-Han Chou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Stark C. Draper

The problem of secure source coding with multiple terminals is extended by considering a remote source whose noisy measurements are the correlated random variables used for secure source reconstruction. The main additions to the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , Holger Boche , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we consider the problem of secret key generation for multiple parties. Multi-user networks usually require a trusted party to efficiently distribute keys to the legitimate users and this process is a weakness against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ufuk Altun , Semiha T. Basaran , Gunes K. Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Communication complexity refers to the minimum rate of public communication required for generating a maximal-rate secret key (SK) in the multiterminal source model of Csiszar and Narayan. Tyagi recently characterized this communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Manuj Mukherjee , Navin Kashyap

This paper investigates generation of a secret key from a reciprocal wireless channel. In particular we consider wireless channels that exhibit sparse structure in the wideband regime and the impact of the sparsity on the secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Tzu-Han Chou , Stark C. Draper , Akbar M. Sayeed

We consider a non-asymptotic (one-shot) version of the multiterminal secret key agreement problem on a finite linear source model. In this model, the observation of each terminal is a linear function of an underlying random vector composed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Chung Chan , Navin Kashyap , Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Qiaoqiao Zhou

In this paper, we study the problem of secret key generation from both correlated sources and a secure channel. We obtain the optimal secret key rate in this problem and show that the optimal scheme is to conduct secret key generation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Daming Cao , Wei Kang

We consider a coded cooperative data exchange problem with the goal of generating a secret key. Specifically, we investigate the number of public transmissions required for a set of clients to agree on a secret key with probability one,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Thomas A. Courtade , Thomas R. Halford

The Slepian-Wolf (SW) coding system is a source coding system with two encoders and a decoder, where these encoders independently encode source sequences from two correlated sources into codewords, and the decoder reconstructs both source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Tetsunao Matsuta , Tomohiko Uyematsu

We consider using a secret key and a noisy quantum channel to generate noiseless public communication and noiseless private communication. The optimal protocol for this setting is the publicly-enhanced private father protocol. This protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-05 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Mark M. Wilde

We analyze the performance of a linear code used for a data compression of Slepian-Wolf type. In our framework, two correlated data are separately compressed into codewords employing Gallager-type codes and casted into a communication…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Tatsuto Murayama

This manuscript aims to generate a secret key for a PHY layer to evaluate the channel characteristics in wireless communications. An algorithmic approach is adopted for multimedia encryption to generate a secret key between two entities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-07 B. U. V Prashanth , Y. Pandurangaiah

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Parisa Babaheidarian , Somayeh Salimi , Mohammad Reza Aref

Secret-key generation in a wireless environment exploiting the randomness and reciprocity of the channel gains is considered. A new channel model is proposed which takes into account the effect of reflections (or re-radiations) from receive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Hendrik Vogt , Aydin Sezgin

We provide a novel achievability proof of the Slepian-Wolf theorem for i.i.d. sources over finite alphabets. We demonstrate that random codes that are linear over the real field achieve the classical Slepian-Wolf rate-region. For finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-09 Bikash Kumar Dey , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg

Motivated by streaming multi-view video coding and wireless sensor networks, we consider the problem of blockwise streaming compression of a pair of correlated sources, which we term streaming Slepian-Wolf coding. We study the moderate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

We investigate the problem of covert and secret key generation over a state-dependent discrete memoryless channel with one-way public discussion in which an adversary, the warden, may arbitrarily choose the channel state. We develop an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu Bloch

A basic two-terminal secret key generation model is considered, where the interactive communication rate between the terminals may be limited, and in particular may not be enough to achieve the maximum key rate. We first prove a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Jingbo Liu , Paul Cuff , Sergio Verdú