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This paper develops a novel framework for sharing secret keys using the Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. We first characterize the underlying information theoretic limits, under different assumptions on the channel spatial and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Yara Abdallah , Mohamed Abdel Latif , Moustafa Youssef , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

We present a simple new technique to secure quantum key distribution relay networks using secret sharing. Previous techniques have relied on creating distinct physical paths in order to create the shares. We show, however, how this can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Stephen M. Barnett , Simon J. D. Phoenix

We have developed a method to calculate a secret key rate of a continuous-variable quantum-key-distribution scheme using four coherent states and postselection for a general model of Gaussian attacks. We assume that the transmission line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ryo Namiki , Akira Kitagawa , Takuya Hirano

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

This study introduces a decentralized approach to secure wireless communication using a cryptographic secret key generation algorithm among distributed nodes. The system model employs Gaussian prime numbers, ensuring the collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ertugrul Alper , Eray Guven , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

This article presents a novel method for establishing an information theoretically secure encryption key over wireless channels. It exploits the fact that data transmission over wireless links is accompanied by packet error, while noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Amir K. Khandani

We show the security of multi-user key establishment on a single line of quantum communication. More precisely, we consider a quantum communication architecture where the qubit generation and measurement happen at the two ends of the line,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Mina Doosti , Lucas Hanouz , Anne Marin , Elham Kashefi , Marc Kaplan

The dynamic establishment of shared information (e.g. secret key) between two entities is particularly important in networks with no pre-determined structure such as wireless sensor networks (and in general wireless mobile ad-hoc networks).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-12-18 V. Liagkou , E. Makri , P. Spirakis , Y. C. Stamatiou

We present security proofs for a protocol for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) based on encoding in finite high-dimensional Hilbert spaces. This protocol is an extension of Bennett's and Brassard's basic protocol from two bases, two state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohamed Bourennane , Anders Karlsson , Gunnar Bjork , Nicolas Gisin , Nicolas Cerf

In this paper, we investigate properties of some multi-particle entangled states and, from the properties applying the secret sharing present a new type of quantum key distribution protocols as generalization of quantum key distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sora Choi , Jinsoo Kim , Dong Pyo Chi

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

This paper investigates physical layer security for a large-scale WSN with random multiple access, where each fusion center in the network randomly schedules a number of sensors to upload their sensed data subject to the overhearing of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tong-Xing Zheng , Xin Chen , Chao Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Jinhong Yuan

Current security techniques can be implemented with either secret key exchange or physical layer wiretap codes. In this work, we investigate an alternative solution for MIMO wiretap channels. Inspired by the artificial noise (AN) technique,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Shuiyin Liu , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

We study covert communication and covert secret key generation with positive rates over quantum state-dependent channels. Specifically, we consider fully quantum state-dependent channels when the transmitter shares an entangled state with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

We address the multi-user quantum key distribution (QKD) problem under malicious quantum attacks, which is critical for realizing a large-scale quantum Internet. This paper maximizes the sum secret key rate (SKR) of a novel uplink…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhichao Dong , Xiaolin Zhou , Huang Peng , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , Xin Wang

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is a cryptographic protocol in which a quantum secret is distributed among a number of parties where some subsets of the parties are able to recover the secret while some subsets are unable to recover the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Kaushik Senthoor , Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli

While the literature on RF fingerprinting-based authentication and key distillation is vast, the two topics have customarily been studied separately. In this paper, starting from the observation that the wireless channel is a composite,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sotiris Skaperas , Arsenia Chorti , Mahdi Shakiba Herfeh , Muhammad K. Shehzad , Philippe Sehier

Group authentication is a method of confirmation that a set of users belong to a group and of distributing a common key among them. Unlike the standard authentication schemes where one central authority authenticates users one by one, group…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sueda Guzey , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Physical layer key generation from the wireless channel is an emerging area of interest to provide confidentiality and authentication. One of the main challenges in this domain is to increase the length of the secret key while maintaining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Haji M. Furqan , Jehad M. Hamamreh , Huseyin Arslan

A new approach to quantum cryptography to be called KCQ, keyed communication in quantum noise, is developed on the basis of quantum detection and communication theory for classical information transmission. By the use of a shared secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen