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In the wiretap channel setting, one aims to get information-theoretic privacy of communicated data based only on the assumption that the channel from sender to receiver is noisier than the one from sender to adversary. The secrecy capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mihir Bellare , Stefano Tessaro

We prove the security of theoretical quantum key distribution against the most general attacks which can be performed on the channel, by an eavesdropper who has unlimited computation abilities, and the full power allowed by the rules of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 Eli Biham , Michel Boyer , P. Oscar Boykin , Tal Mor , Vwani Roychowdhury

A theorem is proved which states that no classical key generating protocol could ever be provably secure. Consequently, candidates for provably secure protocols must rely on some quantum effect. Theorem relies on the fact that BB84 Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Stipcevic

We describe the hashing technique to obtain a fast approximation of a target quantum gate in the unitary group SU(2) represented by a product of the elements of a universal basis. The hashing exploits the structure of the icosahedral group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michele Burrello , Giuseppe Mussardo , Xin Wan

We consider a communication network where there exist wiretappers who can access a subset of channels, called a wiretap set, which is chosen from a given collection of wiretap sets. The collection of wiretap sets can be arbitrary. Secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xuan Guang , Raymond W. Yeung

Encryption schemes often derive their power from the properties of the underlying algebra on the symbols used. Inspired by group theoretic tools, we use the centralizer of a subgroup of operations to present a private-key quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Si-Hui Tan , Joshua A. Kettlewell , Yingkai Ouyang , Lin Chen , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

The challenge of information extraction (IE) lies in the diversity of label schemas and the heterogeneity of structures. Traditional methods require task-specific model design and rely heavily on expensive supervision, making them difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jie Lou , Yaojie Lu , Dai Dai , Wei Jia , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Hua Wu

Secure group communications are a mechanism facilitating protected transmission of messages from a sender to multiple receivers, and many emerging applications in both wired and wireless networks need the support of such a mechanism. There…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Shouhuai Xu

In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Joao Barros , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Steven W. McLaughlin

Security protocols are building blocks in secure communications. They deploy some security mechanisms to provide certain security services. Security protocols are considered abstract when analyzed, but they can have extra vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mohsen Toorani

Homomorphic encryption is a sophisticated encryption technique that allows computations on encrypted data to be done without the requirement for decryption. This trait makes homomorphic encryption appropriate for safe computation in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Nimish Jain , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

A general class of authentication schemes for arbitrary quantum messages is proposed. The class is based on the use of sets of unitary quantum operations in both transmission and reception, and on appending a quantum tag to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Esther Perez , Marcos Curty , David J. Santos , Priscila Garcia-Fernandez

The problem of security of quantum key protocols is examined. In addition to the distribution of classical keys, the problem of encrypting quantum data and the structure of the operators which perform quantum encryption is studied. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 P. Oscar Boykin

The secrecy capacity of a network, for a given collection of permissible wiretap sets, is the maximum rate of communication such that observing links in any permissible wiretap set reveals no information about the message. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Cui , Tracey Ho , Joerg Kliewer

We consider the problem of securing a multicast network against a wiretapper that can intercept the packets on a limited number of arbitrary network edges of its choice. We assume that the network employs the network coding technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-22 Salim El Rouayheb , Emina Soljanin , Alex Sprintson

Quantum cryptography uses techniques and ideas from physics and computer science. The combination of these ideas makes the security proofs of quantum cryptography a complicated task. To prove that a quantum-cryptography protocol is secure,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Normand J. Beaudry

Today, the protection of information, ensuring of the safety and the recall in lossless in case of need is highly significant and it is seen as a major threat in the field. Information security is possible by hiding the available data, by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Nurettin Topaloglu , M. Hanefi Calp , Burak Turk

This paper mainly depicts the conceptual overview of vertical integration, semantic interoperability architecture such as Educational Sector Architectural Framework (ESAF) for New Zealand government and different interoperability framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Md. Headayetullah , G. K. Pradhan , Sanjay Biswas , B. Puthal

This paper introduces a methodology based on Euclidean information theory to investigate local properties of secure communication over discrete memoryless wiretap channels. We formulate a constrained optimization problem that maximizes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Emmanouil M. Athanasakos , Nicholas Kalouptsidis , Hariprasad Manjunath

Information-theoretic security -- widely accepted as the strictest notion of security -- relies on channel coding techniques that exploit the inherent randomness of the propagation channels to significantly strengthen the security of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-22 Pedro C. Pinto , Joao Barros , Moe Z. Win