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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

In this paper, the feasibility of implementing a lightweight key distribution scheme using physical layer security for secret key generation (SKG) is explored. Specifically, we focus on examining SKG with the received signal strength (RSS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Amitha Mayya , Arsenia Chorti , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

Secure quantum conferencing refers to a protocol where a number of trusted users generate exactly the same secret key to confidentially broadcast private messages. By a modification of the techniques first introduced in [Pirandola,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Stefano Pirandola

Nitinawarat and Narayan proposed a perfect secret key generation scheme for the so-called \emph{pairwise independent network (PIN) model} by exploiting the combinatorial properties of the underlying graph, namely the spanning tree packing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Manuj Mukherjee , Sagnik Chatterjee , Alhad Sethi

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a multi-access system where multiple users communicate to a legitimate receiver in presence of an external warden. Only a specific subset of the users, called covert users, needs their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

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

We study the rate of change of the multivariate mutual information among a set of random variables when some common randomness is added to or removed from a subset. This is formulated more precisely as two new multiterminal secret key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Chung Chan , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Qiaoqiao Zhou

We develop a theory for long-distance quantum key distribution based on concatenated entanglement swapping using parametric down-conversion sources and show numerical results of our model. The model incorporates practical resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Aeysha Khalique , Barry C. Sanders

In this paper, we explore the connection between secret key agreement and secure omniscience within the setting of the multiterminal source model with a wiretapper who has side information. While the secret key agreement problem considers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Chung Chan , Navin Kashyap , Qiaoqiao Zhou

A secret key agreement setup between three users is considered in which each of the users 1 and 2 intends to share a secret key with user 3 and users 1 and 2 are eavesdroppers with respect to each other. The three users observe i.i.d.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Somayeh Salimi , Mikael Skoglund

We consider information theoretic secret key agreement and secure function computation by multiple parties observing correlated data, with access to an interactive public communication channel. Our main result is an upper bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Himanshu Tyagi , Shun Watanabe

We consider a model with three terminals and examine the problem of characterizing the largest rates at which two pairs of terminals can simultaneously generate private keys, each of which is effectively concealed from the remaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chunxuan Ye , Prakash Narayan

In this work, lossy distributed compression of pairs of correlated sources is considered. Conventionally, Shannon's random coding arguments -- using randomly generated unstructured codebooks whose blocklength is taken to be asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

It is well-known that wireless channel reciprocity together with fading can be exploited to generate a common secret key between two legitimate communication partners. This can be achieved by exchanging known deterministic pilot signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Rick Fritschek , Gerhard Wunder

We study the problem of secure joint source-channel coding for multimodal semantic sources transmitted over noisy wiretap channels. The source model consists of $m$ modalities (e.g., image, audio, and sensor data), all represented as random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

A source model of key sharing between three users is considered in which each pair of them wishes to agree on a secret key hidden from the remaining user. There are rate-limited public channels for communications between the users. We give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Somayeh Salimi , Panos Papadimitratos

This paper investigates an information-theoretic model of secure semantic-aware communication. For this purpose, we consider the lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) of a memoryless semantic source transmitted over a memoryless wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

We investigate the problem of generating common randomness (CR) from finite compound sources aided by unidirectional communication over rate-limited perfect channels. The two communicating parties, often referred to as terminals, observe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Rami Ezzine , Moritz Wiese , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

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

While the wiretap secret key capacity remains unknown for general source models even in the two-user case, we obtained a single-letter characterization for a large class of multi-user source models with a linear wiretapper who can observe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Chung Chan , Navin Kashyap , Qiaoqiao Zhou