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We formulate and study a cryptographic problem relevant to wireless: a sender, Alice, wants to transmit private messages to two receivers, Bob and Calvin, using unreliable wireless broadcast transmissions and short public feedback from Bob…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-27 László Czap , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Suhas Diggavi , Christina Fragouli

Security and privacy are major concerns in modern communication networks. In recent years, the information theory of covert communications, where the very presence of the communication is undetectable to a watchful and determined adversary,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

Covert communication, also known as low probability of detection (LPD) communication, prevents the adversary from knowing that a communication is taking place. Recent work has demonstrated that, in a three-party scenario with a transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ramin Soltani , Boulat Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Suppose Alice wishes to send messages to Bob through a communication channel C_1, but her transmissions also reach an eavesdropper Eve through another channel C_2. The goal is to design a coding scheme that makes it possible for Alice to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

For a discrete or a continuous source model, we study the problem of secret-key generation with one round of rate-limited public communication between two legitimate users. Although we do not provide new bounds on the wiretap secret-key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

We study the problem of secret key distillation from bipartite states in the scenario where Alice and Bob can only perform measurements at the single-copy level and classically process the obtained outcomes. Even with these limitations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Acin , Lluis Masanes , Nicolas Gisin

A generalized multiple access channel (GMAC) with one confidential message set is studied, where two users (users 1 and 2) attempt to transmit common information to a destination, and user 1 also has confidential information intended for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-22 Yingbin Liang , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates the achievable region and precoder design for multiple access wiretap (MAC-WT) channels, where each user transmits both secret and open (i.e., non-confidential) messages. All these messages are intended for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Giuseppe Caire

We study the capacity of secret-key agreement over a wiretap channel with state parameters. The transmitter communicates to the legitimate receiver and the eavesdropper over a discrete memoryless wiretap channel with a memoryless state…

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

Secret-sharing building blocks based on quantum broadcast communication are studied. The confidential capacity region of the pure-loss bosonic broadcast channel is determined, both with and without key assistance, and an achievable region…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Uzi Pereg , Roberto Ferrara , Matthieu R. Bloch

This paper considers the problem of secret communication over a multiple access channel with generalized feedback. Two trusted users send independent confidential messages to an intended receiver, in the presence of a passive eavesdropper.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents further insights into a recently developed round-trip communication scheme called ``Secret-message Transmission by Echoing Encrypted Probes (STEEP)''. A legitimate wireless channel between a multi-antenna user (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua , Md Saydur Rahman

In this paper, the problem of secret key agreement in state-dependent multiple access channels with an eavesdropper is studied. For this model, the channel state information is non-causally available at the transmitters; furthermore, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Mohsen Bahrami , Ali Bereyhi , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

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

This paper investigates the achievable region of a $K$-user discrete memoryless (DM) multiple access wiretap (MAC-WT) channel, where each user transmits both secret and open messages. All these messages are intended for Bob, while Eve is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Giuseppe Caire

In this work we study the problem of communication over the quantum wiretap channel. For this channel there are three parties Alice (sender), Bob (legitimate receiver) and Eve (eavesdropper). We obtain upper and lower bounds on the amount…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Pranab Sen , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

Incorporating the physical layer characteristics to secure communications has received considerable attention in recent years. Moreover, cooperation with some nodes of network can give benefits of multiple-antenna systems, increasing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Meysam Mirzaee , Soroush Akhlaghi

Information-theoretic secret key agreement (SKA) protocols are a fundamental cryptographic primitive that are used to establish a shared secret key between two or more parties. In a two-party SKA in source model, Alice and Bob have samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Setareh Sharifian , Alireza Poostindouz , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

We consider the Gaussian Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel (GMAC-WT). In this scenario, multiple users communicate with an intended receiver in the presence of an intelligent and informed wire-tapper who receives a degraded version of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ender Tekin , Aylin Yener

This work investigates the secrecy capacity of the Wiretap Broadcast Channel (WBC) with an external eavesdropper where a source wishes to communicate two private messages over a Broadcast Channel (BC) while keeping them secret from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Meryem Benammar , Pablo Piantanida