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Secure communication over a wiretap channel is considered in the disadvantaged wireless environment, where the eavesdropper channel is (possibly much) better than the main channel. We present a method to exploit inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

We consider the problem of communicating information over a network secretly and reliably in the presence of a hidden adversary who can eavesdrop and inject malicious errors. We provide polynomial-time, rate-optimal distributed network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Hongyi Yao , Danilo Silva , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg

Random selection, leader election, and collective coin flipping are fundamental tasks in fault-tolerant distributed computing. We study these problems in the full-information model where despite decades of study, key gaps remain in our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Eshan Chattopadhyay , Mohit Gurumukhani , Noam Ringach , Rocco A. Servedio

The classical theories of communication rely on the assumption that there has to be a flow of particles from Bob to Alice in order for him to send a message to her. We develop a quantum protocol that allows Alice to perceive Bob's message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 David Roland Miran Arvidsson-Shukur , Crispin Henry William Barnes

We revisit the classic problem of spreading a piece of information in a group of $n$ fully connected processors. By suitably adding a small dose of randomness to the protocol of Gasienic and Pelc (1996), we derive for the first time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr , Shay Moran , Shlomo Moran

Noisy channels are a valuable resource from a cryptographic point of view. They can be used for exchanging secret-keys as well as realizing other cryptographic primitives such as commitment and oblivious transfer. To be really useful, noisy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Claude Crépeau , Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

We consider the problems of distribution estimation and heavy hitter (frequency) estimation under privacy and communication constraints. While these constraints have been studied separately, optimal schemes for one are sub-optimal for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun

Low probability of detection (or covert) communication refers to the scenario where information must be sent reliably to a receiver, but with low probability of detection by an adversary. Recent works on the fundamental limits of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Nick Letzepis

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

We consider a source-destination pair that can only communicate through an untrusted intermediate relay node. The intermediate node is willing to employ a designated relaying scheme to facilitate reliable communication between the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-16 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

A novel communication protocol based on an entangled pair of qubits is presented, allowing secure direct communication from one party to another without the need for a shared secret key. Since the information is transferred in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kim Bostroem

In the Conditional Disclosure of Secrets (CDS) problem, Alice and Bob hold inputs $x\in \mathcal{X}$ and $y\in \mathcal{Y}$ and share a secret. Let $f:\mathcal{X}\times\mathcal{Y}\to\{0,1\}$ be a function such that the secret is revealed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhou Li , Siyan Qin , Xiang Zhang , Jihao Fan , Haiqiang Chen , Giuseppe Caire

Classical probabilistic models of (noisy) quantum systems are not only relevant for understanding the non-classical features of quantum mechanics, but they are also useful for determining the possible advantage of using quantum resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Iman Marvian

We propose a covert communication protocol for the spread-spectrum multiple random access with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. No existing paper has studied covert communication for the random access channel. Our protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

In this paper, we consider a scenario of covert communication aided by multiple friendly interference nodes. The objective is to conceal the legitimate communication link under the surveillance of a warden. The main content is as follows:…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-10 Xuyang Zhao. Wei Guo , Yongchao Wang

This paper consider a new secure communication scene where a full-duplex transmitter (Alan) need to transmit confidential information to a half-duplex receiver (Bob), with a silent eavesdropper (Eve) that tries to eavesdrop the confidential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Xinyue Hu , Caihong Kai , Shengli Zhang , Zhongyi Guo , Jun Gao

Designing efficient channel access schemes for wireless communications without any prior knowledge about the nature of environments has been a very challenging issue, especially when the channel states distribution of all spectrum resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pan Zhou , Tao Jiang

Oblivious transfer is a fundamental cryptographic primitive which is useful for secure multiparty computation. There are several variants of oblivious transfer. We consider 1 out of 2 oblivious transfer, where a sender sends two bits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 David Reichmuth , Ittoop Vergheese Puthoor , Petros Wallden , Erika Andersson

Achieving security against adversaries with unlimited computational power is of great interest in a communication scenario. Since polar codes are capacity achieving codes with low encoding-decoding complexity and they can approach perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Amirsina Torfi , Sobhan Soleymani , Siamak Aram , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

It has been found that the signal can be encoded in the choice of the measurement basis of one of the communicating parties, while the outcomes of the measurement are irrelevant for the communication and therefore may be discarded. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Dong Xie , An Min Wang