The Wiretap Channel With Feedback: Encryption Over the Channel

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.929914zbMATH Open1319.94075arXiv0704.2259OpenAlexW2123658733WikidataQ122951658 ScholiaQ122951658MaRDI QIDQ3604865FDOQ3604865

Authors: Lifeng Lai, Hesham El Gamal, H. Vincent Poor 

Publication date: 24 February 2009

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work, the critical role of noisy feedback in enhancing the secrecy capacity of the wiretap channel is established. Unlike previous works, where a noiseless public discussion channel is used for feedback, the feed-forward and feedback signals share the same noisy channel in the present model. Quite interestingly, this noisy feedback model is shown to be more advantageous in the current setting. More specifically, the discrete memoryless modulo-additive channel with a full-duplex destination node is considered first, and it is shown that the judicious use of feedback increases the perfect secrecy capacity to the capacity of the source-destination channel in the absence of the wiretapper. In the achievability scheme, the feedback signal corresponds to a private key, known only to the destination. In the half-duplex scheme, a novel feedback technique that always achieves a positive perfect secrecy rate (even when the source-wiretapper channel is less noisy than the source-destination channel) is proposed. These results hinge on the modulo-additive property of the channel, which is exploited by the destination to perform encryption over the channel without revealing its key to the source. Finally, this scheme is extended to the continuous real valued modulo-$Lambda$ channel where it is shown that the perfect secrecy capacity with feedback is also equal to the capacity in the absence of the wiretapper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2259

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zbMATH Keywords

feedbacksecrecy capacitywiretap channelnoisymodulo-additive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cryptography (94A60) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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