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We determine the secrecy capacity of the compound channel with quantum wiretapper and channel state information at the transmitter. Moreover, we derive a lower bound on the secrecy capacity of this channel without channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Holger Boche , Minglai Cai , Ning Cai , Christian Deppe

The wiretap channel is a setting where one aims to provide information-theoretic privacy of communicated data based solely on the assumption that the channel from sender to adversary is "noisier" than the channel from sender to receiver. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mihir Bellare , Stefano Tessaro , Alexander Vardy

This paper proposes a generic approach for providing enhanced security to communication systems which encode their data for reliability before encrypting it through a stream cipher for security. We call this counter-intuitive technique the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Frederique Oggier , Miodrag J. Mihaljevic

Quantum cryptography exploits principles of quantum physics for the secure processing of information. A prominent example is secure communication, i.e., the task of transmitting confidential messages from one location to another. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Christopher Portmann , Renato Renner

In this paper, a new wiretap channel model is proposed, where the legitimate transmitter and receiver communicate over a discrete memoryless channel. The wiretapper has perfect access to a fixed-length subset of the transmitted codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mohamed Nafea , Aylin Yener

We show how to use decoherence-free subspaces over collective-noise quantum channels to convey classical information in perfect secrecy. We argue that codes defined over decoherence-free subspaces are codes for quantum wiretap channels in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Elloá B. Guedes , Francisco M. de Assis

We derive a lower bound on the secrecy capacity of the compound wiretap channel with channel state information at the transmitter which matches the general upper bound on the secrecy capacity of general compound wiretap channels given by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Igor Bjelaković , Holger Boche , Jochen Sommerfeld

Quantum key distribution is widely thought to offer unconditional security in communication between two users. Unfortunately, a widely accepted proof of its security in the presence of source, device and channel noises has been missing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hoi-Kwong Lo , H. F. Chau

Secrecy issues of free-space optical links realizing information theoretically secure communications as well as high transmission rates are discussed. We numerically study secrecy communication rates of optical wiretap channel based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Hiroyuki Endo , Te Sun Han , Takao Aoki , Masahide Sasaki

We determine the capacity of the classical compound quantum wiretapper channel with channel state information at the transmitter. Moreover we derive a lower bound on the capacity of this channel without channel state information and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Minglai Cai , Ning Cai , Christian Deppe

In the wiretap channel setting, one aims to get information-theoretic privacy of communicated data based only on the assumption that the channel from sender to receiver is noisier than the one from sender to adversary. The secrecy capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mihir Bellare , Stefano Tessaro

The wiretap channel models secure communication between two users in the presence of an eavesdropper who must be kept ignorant of transmitted messages. The performance of such a system is usually characterized by its secrecy capacity which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

The long-standing problem of quantum information processing is to remove the classical channel from quantum communication. Introducing a new information processing technique, it is discussed that both insecure and secure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arindam Mitra

Over decades quantum cryptography has been intensively studied for unconditionally secured data transmission in a quantum regime. Due to the quantum loopholes caused by imperfect single photon detectors and/or lossy quantum channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Byoung S. Ham

Recent research in quantum cryptography has led to the development of schemes that encrypt and authenticate quantum messages with computational security. The security definitions used so far in the literature are asymptotic, game-based, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Fabio Banfi , Ueli Maurer , Christopher Portmann , Jiamin Zhu

The secrecy capacity of the type II wiretap channel (WTC II) with a noisy main channel is currently an open problem. Herein its secrecy-capacity is derived and shown to be equal to its semantic-security (SS) capacity. In this setting, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Ziv Goldfeld , Paul Cuff , Haim H. Permuter

We derive a lower bound on the capacity of classical-quantum arbitrarily varying wiretap channel and determine the capacity of the classicalquantum arbitrarily varying wiretap channel with channel state information at the transmitter.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Vladimir Blinovsky , Minglai Cai

Ensuring security and integrity of elections constitutes an important challenge with wide-ranging societal implications. Classically, security guarantees can be ensured based on computational complexity, which may be challenged by quantum…

Methods of quantum mechanics promise information-theoretic security for various protocols in cryptography. However, impossibility of some cryptographic applications such as standard bit commitment, oblivious transfer, multiparty secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Muhammad Nadeem

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