Generalized privacy amplification

Author

Bennett, Charles H. ; Brassard, Gilles ; Crepeau, C. ; Maurer, Ueli M.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

27 Jun-1 Jul 1994

Firstpage

350

Abstract

This paper provides a general treatment of privacy amplification by public discussion, a concept introduced by Bennett, Brassard and Robert (1988) for a special scenario. The results have applications to unconditionally-secure secret-key agreement protocols, quantum cryptography and to a non-asymptotic and constructive treatment of the secrecy capacity of wire-tap and broadcast channels, even for a considerably strengthened definition of secrecy capacity

Keywords

cryptography; entropy; protocols; telecommunication channels; broadcast channels; entropy; public discussion; quantum cryptography; secrecy capacity; secure secret-key agreement protocols; wire-tap channels; Broadcasting; Computer science; Cryptography; Entropy; Error probability; Laboratories; Privacy; Probability distribution; Protocols; Random variables;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Theory, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Trondheim

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2015-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIT.1994.394668

Filename

394668

Link To Document

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