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Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) schemes are key exchange protocols based on the physical properties of quantum channels. They avoid the computational-hardness assumptions that underlie the security of classical key exchange.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Arpan Akash Ray , Boris Skoric

Publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) allows a dealer to share a secret among a set of shareholders so that the secret can be reconstructed later from any set of qualified participants. In addition, any public verifier should be able to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Pham Nhat Minh , Khoa Nguyen , Willy Susilo , Khuong Nguyen-An

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 propose an improved two-way continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV QKD) protocol by adding proper random noise on the receiver's homodyne detection, the security of which is analysed against general collective attacks. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Maozhu Sun , Xiang Peng , Hong Guo

The conventional omnipotent eavesdropper assumption in quantum cryptography study can be too strict for some realistic scenarios. In this paper, we study the secret key distillation over a satellite-to-satellite free space optics channel in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ziwen Pan , Ivan B. Djordjevic

Bounding privacy leakage over compositions, i.e., privacy accounting, is a key challenge in differential privacy (DP). The privacy parameter ($\eps$ or $\delta$) is often easy to estimate but hard to bound. In this paper, we propose a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jiachen T. Wang , Saeed Mahloujifar , Tong Wu , Ruoxi Jia , Prateek Mittal

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 2011-10-05 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

Many applications of quantum computing in the near term rely on variational quantum circuits (VQCs). They have been showcased as a promising model for reaching a quantum advantage in machine learning with current noisy intermediate scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jonas Landman , Slimane Thabet , Constantin Dalyac , Hela Mhiri , Elham Kashefi

In this Paper, we investigate the security of Zhang, Li and Guo quantum key distribution via quantum encryption protocol [$\text{Phys. Rev. A} \textbf{64}, 24302 (2001)$] and show that it is not secure against some of Eve's attacks and with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fahmi

Secure transmission between two agents, Alice and Bob, over block fading channels can be achieved similarly to conventional hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) by letting Alice transmit multiple blocks, each containing an encoded version…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Stefano Tomasin , Nicola Laurenti

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 data $X$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

We consider a setup in which Alice selects a pdf $f$ from a set of prescribed pdfs $\mathscr{P}$ and sends a prefix-free codeword $W$ to Bob in order to allow him to generate a single instance of the random variable $X\sim f$. We describe a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Cheuk Ting Li , Abbas El Gamal

This paper develops a novel framework for sharing secret keys using existing Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocols. Our approach exploits the multi-path nature of the wireless environment to hide the key from passive eavesdroppers. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-09 Mohamed Abdel Ghany , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

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

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is considered in the disadvantaged wireless environment, where the eavesdropper channel is (possibly much) better than the main channel. We present a method to exploit inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

In this problem, Alice and Bob, are provided $X_{1}^{n}$ and $X_{2}^{n}$ that are IID $p_{X_1 X_2}$. Alice and Bob can communicate to Charles over (noiseless) links of rate $R_1$ and $R_2$, respectively. Their goal is to enable Charles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Touheed Anwar Atif , Arun Padakandla , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Physical layer key generation technology which leverages channel randomness to generate secret keys has attracted extensive attentions in long range (LoRa)-based networks recently. We in this paper develop a software-defined radio (SDR)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Yingying Hu , Dongyang Xu , Tiantian Zhang

The polarization phenomenon for a single source is extended to a framework with multiple correlated sources. It is shown in addition to extracting the randomness of the source, the polar transforms takes the original arbitrary dependencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Emmanuel Abbe

It is well-known that wireless channel reciprocity together with fading can be exploited to generate a common secret key between two legitimate communication partners. This can be achieved by exchanging known deterministic pilot signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Rick Fritschek , Gerhard Wunder

A Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol describes how two remote parties can establish a secret key by communicating over a quantum and a public classical channel that both can be accessed by an eavesdropper. QKD protocols using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Esmaeil Karimi , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting