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We study covert secret key generation over a binary-input two-user multiple access channel with one-way public discussion and derive bounds on the capacity region. Specifically, in this problem, there are three legitimate parties: Alice,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yingxin Zhang , Lin Zhou , Qiaosheng Zhang

We consider problems of two-user secret key generation through an intermediate relay. Each user observes correlated source sequences and communicates to the relay over rate-limited noiseless links. The relay processes and broadcasts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Rafael F. Schaefer , Giuseppe Caire

If Alice must communicate with Bob over a channel shared with the adversarial Eve, then Bob must be able to validate the authenticity of the message. In particular we consider the model where Alice and Eve share a discrete memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Eric Graves , Paul Yu , Predrag Spasojevic

We consider the extraction of shared secret key from correlations that are generated by either a classical or quantum source. In the classical setting, two honest parties (Alice and Bob) use public discussion and local randomness to distill…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 Eric Chitambar , Benjamin Fortescue , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Two parties, Alice and Bob, wish to distill a binary secret key out of a list of correlated variables that they share after running a quantum key distribution protocol based on continuous-spectrum quantum carriers. We present a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 G. Van Assche , J. Cardinal , N. J. Cerf

The theory of quantum cryptography aims to guarantee unconditional information-theoretic security against an omnipotent eavesdropper. In many practical scenarios, however, the assumption of an all-powerful adversary is excessive and can be…

We outline a straightforward approach for obtaining a secret key rate using only no-signaling constraints and linear programming. Assuming an individual attack, we consider all possible joint probabilities. Initially, we study only the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Won-Young Hwang , Joonwoo Bae , Nathan Killoran

We provide a simple method to obtain an upper bound on the secret key rate that is particularly suited to analyze practical realizations of quantum key distribution protocols with imperfect devices. We consider the so-called trusted device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Moroder , Marcos Curty , Norbert Lütkenhaus

This paper studies the problem of extracting common randomness (CR) or secret keys from correlated random sources observed by two legitimate parties, Alice and Bob, through public discussion in the presence of an eavesdropper, Eve. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Peter J. Gu , Yiqi Chen , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

In the classical Secret-Key generation model, Common Randomness is generated by two terminals based on the observation of correlated components of a common source, while keeping it secret from a non-legitimate observer. It is assumed that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Nima Tavangaran , Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer

This paper investigates the problem of secret key generation over a wiretap channel when the terminals observe correlated sources. These sources are independent of the main channel and the users overhear them before the transmission takes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Germán Bassi , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

This paper considers a state dependent broadcast channel with one transmitter, Alice, and two receivers, Bob and Eve. The problem is to effectively convey ("amplify") the channel state sequence to Bob while "masking" it from Eve. The extent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Rajiv Soundararajan , Sriram Vishwanath

In this work, we consider a complete covert communication system, which includes the source-model of a stealthy secret key generation (SSKG) as the first phase. The generated key will be used for the covert communication in the second phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Pin-Hsun Lin , Carsten Rudolf Janda , Eduard Axel Jorswieck

We consider the secret key generation problem when sources are randomly excited by the sender and there is a noiseless public discussion channel. Our setting is thus similar to recent works on channels with action-dependent states where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tzu-Han Chou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Stark C. Draper

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers via a Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel. A wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal via another MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-01 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

This paper considers the problem of secret-key agreement with public discussion subject to a peak power constraint $A$ on the channel input. The optimal input distribution is proved to be discrete with finite support. The result is obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Marwen Zorgui , Zouheir Rezki , Basel Alomair , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

A two-party key agreement problem with public discussion, known as the source model problem, is considered. By relating key agreement to hypothesis testing, a new coding scheme is developed that yields a sufficient condition to achieve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Amin Gohari , Onur Günlü , Gerhard Kramer

When the 4-state or the 6-state protocol of quantum cryptography is carried out on a noisy (i.e. realistic) quantum channel, then the raw key has to be processed to reduce the information of an adversary Eve down to an arbitrarily low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 N. Gisin , S. Wolf

This paper investigates the secret key generation in the multiterminal source model, where users observing correlated sources discuss interactively under limited rates to agree on a secret key. We focus on a class of sources representable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Qiaoqiao Zhou , Chung Chan

We consider a setup in which the channel from Alice to Bob is less noisy than the channel from Eve to Bob. We show that there exist encoding and decoding which accomplish error correction and authentication simultaneously; that is, Bob is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Dimiter Ostrev