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Many storage channels admit reading and rewriting of the content at a given cost. We consider rewritable channels with a hidden state which models the unknown characteristics of the memory cell. In addition to mitigating the effect of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda , Luis Lastras , Michele Franceschini

This study investigates secret-key generation for device authentication using physical identifiers, such as responses from physical unclonable functions (PUFs). The system includes two legitimate terminals (encoder and decoder) and an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Vamoua Yachongka , Rémi A. Chou

We investigate the secret key agreement from correlated Gaussian sources in which the legitimate parties can use the public communication with limited rate. For the class of protocols with the one-way public communication, we show a closed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Shun Watanabe , Yasutada Oohama

Covert channel attacks represent a significant threat to system security, leveraging shared resources to clandestinely transmit information from highly secure systems, thereby violating the system's security policies. These attacks exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Shariful Alam , Jidong Xiao , Nasir U. Eisty

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 quantum key distribution implementations, each session is typically chosen long enough so that the secret key rate approaches its asymptotic limit. However, this choice may be constrained by the physical scenario, as in the perspective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Davide Bacco , Matteo Canale , Nicola Laurenti , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

In this paper, we consider continuous-variable quantum key distribution with a discrete modulation, either binary or quaternary. We establish the security of these protocols against the class of collective attacks that induce a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Anthony Leverrier , Philippe Grangier

We consider the distribution of secret keys, both in a bipartite and a multipartite (conference) setting, via a quantum network and establish a framework to obtain bounds on the achievable rates. We show that any multipartite private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Siddhartha Das , Stefan Bäuml , Marek Winczewski , Karol Horodecki

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

With the emergence of 5G low latency applications, such as haptics and V2X, low complexity and low latency security mechanisms are sought. Promising lightweight mechanisms include physical unclonable functions (PUF) and secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Martin Reed , Leila Musavian

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

Covert channel networks are a well-known method for circumventing the security measures organizations put in place to protect their networks from adversarial attacks. This paper introduces a novel method based on bit-rate modulation for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Simone Soderi , Rocco De Nicola

In this paper, the impact of in-band full-duplex (IBFD) wireless communications on secret key generation via physical layer channel state information is investigated. A key generation strategy for IBFD wireless devices to increase the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Alireza Sadeghi , Michele Zorzi , Farshad Lahouti

Quantum key distribution (QKD) offers the promise of absolutely secure communications. However, proofs of absolute security often assume perfect implementation from theory to experiment. Thus, existing systems may be prone to insidious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Samuel L. Braunstein , Stefano Pirandola

We determine the secrecy capacities under common randomness assisted coding of arbitrarily varying classical-quantum wiretap channels.Furthermore, we determine the secrecy capacity of a mixed channel model which is compound from the sender…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Holger Boche , Minglai Cai , Christian Deppe , Janis Nötzel

Strong secrecy communication over a discrete memoryless state-dependent multiple access channel (SD-MAC) with an external eavesdropper is investigated. The channel is governed by discrete memoryless and i.i.d. channel states and the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yiqi Chen , Tobias Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund , Yuan Luo

A novel framework for sharing common randomness and generating secret keys in wireless networks is considered. In particular, a network of users equipped with pulse oscillators (POs) and coupling mechanisms in between is considered. Such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Hessam Mahdavifar , Najme Ebrahimi

It is a well-known fact that feedback does not increase the capacity of point-to-point memoryless channels, however, its effect in secure communications is not fully understood yet. In this work, an achievable scheme for the wiretap channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Germán Bassi , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

We study the generation of a secret key of maximum rate by a pair of terminals observing correlated sources and with the means to communicate over a noiseless public com- munication channel. Our main result establishes a structural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Himanshu Tyagi

Two legitimate parties, referred to as Alice and Bob, wish to generate secret keys from the wireless channel in the presence of an eavesdropper, referred to as Eve, in order to use such keys for encryption and decryption. In general, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Nasser Aldaghri , Hessam Mahdavifar