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
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