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We consider the secure communication problem for broadcasting of two encrypted sources. The sender wishes to broadcast two secret messages via two common key cryptosystems. We assume that the adversary can use the side-channel, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Bagus Santoso , Yasutada Oohama

Secure communication with feedback is studied. An achievability scheme in which the backward channel is used to generate a shared secret key is proposed. The scenario of binary symmetric forward and backward channels is considered, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , D. Richard Brown , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

With the rapid development of quantum computers the currently secure cryptographic protocols may not stay that way. Quantum mechanics provides means to create an inherently secure communication channel that is protected by the laws of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Andrew Frigyik

Secret key generation at the physical layer is expected to be a fundamental enabler for next-generation networks. We consider a network where the user equipment is a drone and propose a novel secret key generation solution when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Mattia Piana , Stefano Tomasin

We discuss a quantum key distribution scheme in which small phase and amplitude modulations of CW light beams carry the key information. The presence of EPR type correlations provides the quantum protection. We identify universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. C. Ralph

In a point-to-point communication system which consists of a sender, a receiver and a set of noiseless channels, the sender wishes to transmit a private message to the receiver through the channels which may be eavesdropped by a wiretapper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Fan Cheng , Raymond W. Yeung , Kenneth W. Shum

A scheme for secure communications, called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)'', is revisited. STEEP is a round-trip scheme with a probing phase from one user to another and an echoing phase in the reverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua

We consider a basic communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends an encoded sequence to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

When elementary quantum systems, such as polarized photons, are used to transmit digital information, the uncertainty principle gives rise to novel cryptographic phenomena unachievable with traditional transmission media, e.g. a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Charles H. Bennett , Gilles Brassard , Seth Breidbart

This study introduces a hybrid cryptographic framework for quantum communication that integrates entanglement-assisted decryption with phase-based physical obfuscation. While conventional quantum protocols often rely on explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Asgar Hosseinnezhad , Hadi Sabri

Cryptography is the science of encrypting the information so that it is rendered unreadable for an intruder. Cryptographic techniques are of utmost importance in today's world as the information to be sent might be of invaluable importance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Arjun Puri , Sudesh Kumar

In the paper, we make an investigation of robust beamforming for secure directional modulation in the multi-user multiple-input and multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems in the presence of direction angle measurement errors. When statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Feng Shu , Wei Zhu , Xiangwei Zhou , Jun Li , Jinhui Lu

Secure quantum communication traditionally assumes that the adversary controls only the public channel. We consider a more powerful adversary who can demand private information of users. This type of adversary has been studied in public key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Trey Li

A private compression design problem is studied, where an encoder observes useful data $Y$, wishes to compress it using variable length code and communicates it through an unsecured channel. Since $Y$ is correlated with private attribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gündüz , Mikael Skoglund

In this work, we focus on the classical optical channel having Poissonian statistical behavior and propose a novel secrecy coding-based physical layer protocol. Our protocol is different but complementary to both (computationally secure)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

We analyze a two-receiver binary-input discrete memoryless broadcast channel, in which the transmitter communicates a common message simultaneously to both receivers and a covert message to only one of them. The unintended recipient of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

The problem of secure broadcasting with independent secret keys is studied. The particular scenario is analyzed in which a common message has to be broadcast to two legitimate receivers, while keeping an external eavesdropper ignorant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Rafael F. Schaefer , Ashish Khisti , H. Vincent Poor

This paper is about an encryption based approach to the secure implementation of feedback controllers for physical systems. Specifically, Paillier's homomorphic encryption is used to digitally implement a class of linear dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Julian Tran , Farhad Farokhi , Michael Cantoni , Iman Shames

The state of polarization and the carrier phase drift dynamically during transmission in a random fashion in coherent optical fiber communications. The typical digital signal processing solution to mitigate these impairments consists of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Cristian B. Czegledi , Erik Agrell , Magnus Karlsson , Pontus Johannisson