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This article presents a novel method for establishing an information theoretically secure encryption key over wireless channels. It exploits the fact that data transmission over wireless links is accompanied by packet error, while noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Amir K. Khandani

This manuscript aims to generate a secret key for a PHY layer to evaluate the channel characteristics in wireless communications. An algorithmic approach is adopted for multimedia encryption to generate a secret key between two entities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-07 B. U. V Prashanth , Y. Pandurangaiah

We consider a pair-wise independent network where every pair of terminals in the network observes a common pair-wise source that is independent of all the sources accessible to the other pairs. We propose a method for secret key agreement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chunxuan Ye , Alex Reznik

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

We study covert communication and covert secret key generation with positive rates over quantum state-dependent channels. Specifically, we consider fully quantum state-dependent channels when the transmitter shares an entangled state with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

We revisit the traditional framework of wireless secret key generation, where two parties leverage the wireless channel randomness to establish a secret key. The essence in the framework is to quantify channel randomness into bit sequences…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Jie Xu , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

The physical-layer secret key generation has emerged as a promising solution for establishing cryptographic keys by leveraging reciprocal and time-varying wireless channels. However, existing approaches suffer from low key generation rates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Guyue Li , Haiyu Yang , Junqing Zhang , Hongbo Liu , Aiqun Hu

Joint communication and sensing is expected to be one of the features introduced by the sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. This will enable a huge variety of new applications, hence, it is important to find suitable approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Miroslav Mitev , Amitha Mayya , Arsenia Chorti

Quantum continuous variables are being explored as an alternative means to implement quantum key distribution, which is usually based on single photon counting. The former approach is potentially advantageous because it should enable higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Grosshans , G. Van Assche , J. Wenger , R. Brouri , N. J. Cerf , Ph. Grangier

This work presents a novel method to generate secret keys shared between a legitimate node pair (Alice and Bob) to safeguard the communication between them from an unauthorized node (Eve). To this end, we exploit the {\it reciprocal carrier…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Waqas Aman , Aneeqa Ijaz , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Dushanta Nalin K. Jayakody , Haris Pervaiz

Physical layer key generation from the wireless channel is an emerging area of interest to provide confidentiality and authentication. One of the main challenges in this domain is to increase the length of the secret key while maintaining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Haji M. Furqan , Jehad M. Hamamreh , Huseyin Arslan

We propose a numerical accountant for evaluating the tight $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-privacy loss for algorithms with discrete one dimensional output. The method is based on the privacy loss distribution formalism and it uses the recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-24 Antti Koskela , Joonas Jälkö , Lukas Prediger , Antti Honkela

We consider a group of $m$ trusted and authenticated nodes that aim to create a shared secret key $K$ over a wireless channel in the presence of an eavesdropper Eve. We assume that there exists a state dependent wireless broadcast channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Shaunak Mishra , Christina Fragouli , Suhas N. Diggavi

This paper investigates the role of the eavesdropper's statistics in the implementation of a practical secret-key generation system. We carefully conduct the information-theoretic analysis of a secret-key generation system from wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Alexandre J. Pierrot , Rémi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

Secret key establishment leveraging the physical layer as a source of common randomness has been investigated in a range of settings. We investigate the problem of establishing, in an information-theoretic sense, a secret key between a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Somayeh Salimi , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Mikael Skoglund , Panos Papadimitratos

We consider secret key generation for a "pairwise independent network" model in which every pair of terminals observes correlated sources that are independent of sources observed by all other pairs of terminals. The terminals are then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-09 Sirin Nitinawarat , Chunxuan Ye , Alexander Barg , Prakash Narayan , Alex Reznik

We consider a wireless federated learning system where multiple data holder edge devices collaborate to train a global model via sharing their parameter updates with an honest-but-curious parameter server. We demonstrate that the inherent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Sina Rezaei Aghdam , Ehsan Amid , Marija Furdek , Alexandre Graell i Amat

The high computational cost of approaching the performance of Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding has limited its practical use for decades. Because the complexity grows exponentially with the message length, researchers have spent years…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Marwan Jalaleddine , Jiajie Li , Syed Mohsin Abbas , Warren J. Gross

We study the problem of generating a shared secret key between two terminals in a joint source-channel setup -- the sender communicates to the receiver over a discrete memoryless wiretap channel and additionally the terminals have access to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ashish Khisti , Suhas Diggavi , Gregory Wornell

In this paper, the performance of signaling strategies with high peak-to-average power ratio is analyzed over both coherent and noncoherent fading channels. Two modulation schemes, namely on-off phase-shift keying (OOPSK) and on-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-21 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy