• DocumentCode
    2384201
  • Title

    From weak to strong information-theoretic key agreement

  • Author

    Maurer, Ueli ; Wolf, Stefan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    18
  • Abstract
    In the original definitions of information-theoretic secret-key agreement, the required secrecy condition was too weak. We show, by a generic reduction, that it can be strengthened without any effect on the achievable key-generation rate
  • Keywords
    cryptography; information theory; cryptography; generic reduction; information-theoretic secret-key agreement; key-generation rate; secrecy condition; strong key agreement; weak key agreement; Broadcasting; Computer science; Error correction; Information security; Privacy; Random variables;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sorrento
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5857-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2000.866308
  • Filename
    866308