Wireless Network Security: Building on Erasures

Author

Fragouli, Christina ; Prabhakaran, Vinod M. ; Czap, Laszlo ; Diggavi, Suhas N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

103

Issue

10

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1826

Lastpage

1840

Abstract

One of the most widely-known techniques for securing a message from eavesdropping, is the famous one-time pad. Although the one-time pad offers unconditional security, it has limited applicability today, because it requires that to communicate, two parties already share a key that is not known by the eavesdropper and has size equal to the message. In this review paper we present a line of work that explores how we can efficiently share keys securely from an eavesdropper, and thus communicate using a one-time pad like approach. The basic idea is to exploit new opportunities that wireless networks offer, such as the fact that we have multiple paths, the fact that we have packet losses, and the availability of ACK/NACK feedback.

Keywords

cryptography; radio networks; telecommunication security; ACK feedback; NACK feedback; cryptography; eavesdropping; message security; multiple paths; one-time pad like approach; packet losses; wireless network security; Communication system security; Cryptography; Encoding; Physical layer; Protocols; Receivers; Telecommunication services; Wireless networks; Cryptography; erasure networks; information theoretic security; message security; network coding; oblivious transfer; wireless network security;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2015.2438312

Filename

7210262