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We study the secrecy of an optical communication system with two scattering layers, to hide both the sender and receiver, by measuring the correlation of the intermediate speckle generated between the two layers. The binary message is…

The secrecy performance of realistic wireless multicast scenarios can be significantly deteriorated by the simultaneous occurrence of multipath and shadowing. To resolve this security threat, in this work an opportunistic relaying-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-09 MD. Shakhawat Hossen , A. S. M. Badrudduza , S. M. Riazul Islam , Abu Hanif , Milton Kumar Kundu , Kyung-Sup Kwak

It has been assumed that the physical separation (air-gap) of computers provides a reliable level of security, such that should two adjacent computers become compromised, the covert exchange of data between them would be impossible. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Mordechai Guri , Matan Monitz , Yisroel Mirski , Yuval Elovici

Covert communication conceals the transmission of the message from an attentive adversary. Recent work on the limits of covert communication in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels has demonstrated that a covert transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Boulat Bash , Saikat Guha

Modern computers rely on USB and HDMI ports for connecting external peripherals and display devices. Despite their built-in security measures, these ports remain susceptible to passive power-based side-channel attacks. This paper presents a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Sayed Erfan Arefin , Abdul Serwadda

This paper studies interference channels with security constraints. The existence of an external eavesdropper in a two-user interference channel is assumed, where the network users would like to secure their messages from the external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-04 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Hesham El Gamal

Accelerators used for machine learning (ML) inference provide great performance benefits over CPUs. Securing confidential model in inference against off-chip side-channel attacks is critical in harnessing the performance advantage in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sarbartha Banerjee , Shijia Wei , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Mohit Tiwari

Side channels remain a challenge to information flow control and security in modern computing platforms. Resource partitioning techniques that minimise the number of shared resources among processes are often used to address this challenge.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Ramya Jayaram Masti , Devendra Rai , Aanjhan Ranganathan , Christian Müller , Lothar Thiele , Srdjan Capkun

With the increasing complexity of the electromagnetic environment, electromagnetic interference has already been an important problem for optoelectronic systems to be reckoned with. The metal mesh film is a kind of widely used…

Data protection methods like cryptography, despite being effective, inadvertently signal the presence of secret communication, thereby drawing undue attention. Here, we introduce an optical information hiding camera integrated with an…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-13 Bijie Bai , Ryan Lee , Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Yuntian Wang , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Air-gapped systems are isolated from the Internet due to the sensitive information they handle. This paper presents COVID-bit, a new COVert channel attack that leaks sensitive information over the air from highly isolated systems. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Mordechai Guri

Molecular communication in nanonetworks is an emerging communication paradigm that uses molecules as information carriers. Achieving a secure information exchange is one of the practical challenges that need to be considered to address the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 S. M. Riazul Islam , Farman Ali , Hyeonjoon Moon , Kyung-Sup Kwak

Underutilized wireless channel is a waste of spectral resource. Eavesdropping compromises data secrecy. How to overcome the two problems with one solution? In this paper, we propose a spectrum sharing model that defends against…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yee-Loo Foo

We introduce an all-optical system, termed the "lying mirror", to hide input information by transforming it into misleading, ordinary-looking patterns that effectively camouflage the underlying image data and deceive the observers. This…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yuhang Li , Shiqi Chen , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

We develop a theory of light transmission through an aperture-type near-field optical probe with a dissipative matter in its semiconducting core described by a complex frequency-dependent dielectric function. We evaluate the near-field…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Lebedev , T. I. Kuznetsova , A. M. Tsvelik

Passive operating system fingerprinting reveals valuable information to the defenders of heterogeneous private networks; at the same time, attackers can use fingerprinting to reconnoiter networks, so defenders need obfuscation techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Blake Anderson , David McGrew

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of oblivious transfer via noisy channels. We also investigate oblivious transfer over a noisy multiple-access channel with two non-colluding senders and a single receiver. The channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hadi Aghaee , Bahareh Akhbari , Christian Deppe

This paper investigates the problem of covert communications in a heterogeneous wireless network where multiple communication modalities are used simultaneously. In this setup, a legitimate transmitter sends confidential data to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Justin H. Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

Optical wireless communication (OWC) using intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM/DD) has a channel model which possesses unique features, due to the constraints imposed on the channel input. The aim of this tutorial is to overview…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Anas Chaaban , Zouheir Rezki , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

For information transmission a binary symmetric channel is used. There is also another noisy binary symmetric channel (feedback channel), and the transmitter observes without delay all the outputs of the forward channel via that feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 M. V. Burnashev , H. Yamamoto