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Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Johannes Kortz , Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Christian Zenger

Wireless communication is susceptible to eavesdropping attacks because of its broadcast nature. This paper illustrates how interference can be used to counter eavesdropping and assist secrecy. In particular, a wire-tap channel with a…

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

The fact that Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication needs to be directional is usually perceived as a challenge; in this paper we argue that it enables efficient secret key sharing that are unconditionally secure from passive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Mohammed Karmoose , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi , Rafael Misoczki , Lily L. Yang , Zhenliang Zhang

The integration of nanoscale electronics with conventional optical devices is restricted by the diffraction limit of light. Metals can confine light at the subwavelength scales needed, but they are lossy, while dielectric materials do not…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-06 Saman Jahani , Zubin Jacob

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

Air-gapped computers are systems that are kept isolated from the Internet since they store or process sensitive information. In this paper, we introduce an optical covert channel in which an attacker can leak (or, exfiltlrate) sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mordechai Guri , Dima Bykhovsky , Yuval Elovici

It is possible to attack a computer remotely through the front panel LEDs. Following on previous results that showed information leakage at optical wavelengths, now it seems practicable to inject information into a system as well. It is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Joe Loughry

CSI (Channel State Information) of WiFi systems contains the environment channel response between the transmitter and the receiver, so the people/objects and their movement in between can be sensed. To get CSI, the receiver performs channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xianjun Jiao , Michael Mehari , Wei Liu , Muhammad Aslam , Ingrid Moerman

Radio-frequency identification(RFID) technology is widely applied in daily human life. The RFID cards are seen everywhere, from entrance guard to consumption. The information security of RFID cards, such as data confidentiality, tag…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zheng Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The proliferation of vulnerable Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has enabled large-scale cyberattacks. Solutions like Hestia and HomeSnitch have failed to comprehensively address IoT security needs. This research evaluates if Wireguard, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Haseebullah Jumakhan , Amir Mirzaeinia

The rapid proliferation of open-source language models significantly increases the risks of downstream backdoor attacks. These backdoors can introduce dangerous behaviours during model deployment and can evade detection by conventional…

LiFi (light-fidelity) is recognised as a promising technology for the next generation wireless access network. However, little research effort has been spent on the uplink transmission system in LiFi networks. In this paper, an analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Cheng Chen , Dushyantha Basnayaka , Ardimas Andi Purwita , Xiping Wu , Harald Haas

In this two-part paper, we consider the transmission of confidential data over wireless wiretap channels. The first part presents an information-theoretic problem formulation in which two legitimate partners communicate over a quasi-static…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Joao Barros , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Steven W. McLaughlin

In this paper, we demonstrate the communication capabilities of light-fidelity (LiFi) systems based on highbrightness and high-bandwidth integrated laser-based sources in a surface mount device (SMD) packaging platform. The laserbased…

Quantum communication aims to provide absolutely secure transmission of secret information. State-of-the-art methods encode symbols into single photons or coherent light with much less than one photon on average. For long distance…

The demand for keeping the information secure and confidential simultaneously has been progressively increasing. Among various techniques- Audio Steganography, a technique of embedding information transparently in a digital media thereby…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Satish Bhalshankar , Avinash K. Gulve

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of information technologies utilized in buildings to advance the idea of "smart buildings". Among various potential techniques, the use of Wi-Fi based indoor positioning allows to locate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Qian Huang , Yuanzhi Zhang , Zhenhao Ge , Chao Lu

Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Steven Su , Erik Rye , Dave Levin , Robert Beverly

On-body devices are an intrinsic part of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) vision to provide human-centric services. These on-body IoT devices are largely embedded devices that lack a sophisticated user interface to facilitate traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Wei Wang , Lin Yang , Qian Zhang , Tao Jiang

In this paper, we consider the physical layer (PHY) security problem for hybrid wiretapping wireless systems in millimeter wave transmission, where active eavesdroppers (AEs) and passive eavesdroppers (PEs) coexist to intercept the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang
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