• DocumentCode
    1392093
  • Title

    Simultaneously generating multiple keys in a four-terminal network

  • Author

    Babaheidarian, P. ; Salimi, Somayeh ; Aref, Mohammad Reza

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    190
  • Lastpage
    201
  • Abstract
    A source model including four terminals is considered, where three simultaneously generating three types of keys are intended. Terminals 1, 2 and 3 wish to share a common key, the secret key, which should be kept secret from terminal 4 and simultaneously terminals 1 and 2 intend to share a private key with terminal 3, which should be kept secret from each other. Also, all the keys should be concealed from terminal 4 (the external wiretapper). The authors assume that all terminals including the external wiretapper have access to distinct correlated i.i.d. sources; there is also a noiseless public channel with unlimited capacity among the terminals. The authors have investigated the model on two scenarios of key sharing depending on the direction of the public channel. Rate regions of the keys are derived. It is shown that in some special cases the inner and outer bounds of the capacity regions coincide and the capacity regions are derived.
  • Keywords
    channel capacity; private key cryptography; telecommunication security; telecommunication terminals; noiseless public channel; private key sharing; terminal network; unlimited capacity; wiretapper;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Security, IET
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1751-8709
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/iet-ifs.2011.0232
  • Filename
    6397164