Security, economics and nuclear nonproliferation morality. Information theoretic security and privacy of information. Gehm, yuzhang lin, liang chih huang, and amit ashok informationtheoretic analysis of xray scatter and phase architectures for anomaly detection, proc. The unconditional security for ideal circumstances, which is based on the second law of thermodynamics, is found to prevail even under slightly nonideal conditions. Advances in cryptology eurocrypt 2000, lecture notes in computer science 1807, springer, pp. It particularly provides insights of physical layer security in todays wireless communications.
Such conceptualization gives birth to implementation scenarios of information theoretic security an unconditionally secure cryptosystem, that is, even having unlimited computing resources. It then goes on to develop practical coding schemes, building on the theoretical insights and enabling readers to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the design of physical layer security schemes. Shamai shitz, information theoretic security, now, 2007. Information theoretic models of steganography, watermarking and other information hiding techniques. Informationtheoretic security in wireless networks 2007. It proceeds to provide an overview of how information theoretic approaches are developed to achieve secrecy for a basic wiretap channel model as well as for its extensions to multiuser networks. Therefore, such schemes do not provide information theoretic security because they are vulnerable to future advances in hardware and algorithms, including the construction of a largescale quantum. Vincent poor and shlomo shamai shitz summary security in wireless networks has traditionally been considered to be an application layer issue. An information theoretic model for authentication in noisy channels. Most game theoretic approaches applied in network security require attackdefense. However, with the emergence of ad hoc and other less centralized networking environments, there has been an increase in interest. This usually involves designing a communication system for a physical wiretap channel, introduced by wyner in 1, which produces a provably secure digital communication link. These protocols exploit the almost error free physical channel and take it simply as a.
The book begins with a selfcontained explanation of the information theoretic limits of secure communications at the physical layer. This book, divided into four chapters, approaches the topic from a research perspective. In this paper, we develop an evolutionary game model to study the sustainability of. The landmark event that established the discipline of information theory and brought it to immediate worldwide attention was the publication of claude e. Besides this book, a survey of important theoretical results in network coding is provided in yeung et al. Download pdf information theoretic security and privacy of. Liang and vaidya presented several error free protocols that communicate oln bits 45,44,46. Informationtheoretic security is a cryptosystem whose security derives purely from information. We prove that decryption under any key, however, will yield a plausible genome sequence. May 01, 2009 physical layer security in broadcast networks liang, yingbin. Information theoretic security is a cryptosystem whose security derives purely from information theory.
With the rapid development of information technologies, security violations in online social networks osn have emerged as a critical issue. The mimome channel is a gaussian wiretap channel in which the sender, receiver, and eavesdropper all have multiple antennas. Here, we propose a robust countermeasure against these attacks just by introducing a. Informationtheoretic security without an honest majority. For cipher, perfect secrecy requires a onetime pad. This security level is guaranteed by the continuity of. Important note all participants are strongly encouraged to present a poster about their research. Information theoretic security and its applications.
Vincent poor department of electrical engineering princeton university, princeton, nj 08544 email. This is an edited book consisting of overview chapters from experts in the field. To be more precise, 3 introduced a model of a cryptosystem see figure 1. In addition to covering the most recent information theoretic and signalprocessing approaches in physicallayer security at the time of publication, the book also covers game theoretic and graph theoretic. Information theoretic security, foundations and trends in communications and information theory, vol 5, nos 45, pp 355580, now publishers, hanover, ma, usa, 2008. Robust recognition via information theoretic learning. Communication capacity requirement for reliable and secure.
Our goal is to show how multiple interfaces can be exploited to signi. The channel coding side of information theoretic security is referred to as physicallayer security. Lifeng lai department of electrical and computer engineering worcester polytechnic institute, worcester, ma 01609 email. Information forensics and security, ieee transactions on 4 3, 492503, 2009. Informationtheoretic physical layer security for satellite. Information theoretic approaches to privacy and security. In this model, eve has perfect access to the insecure channel, i. Information theory provides a natural framework for the study of this issue, and consequently there has been a. Associating mimo beamforming with security codes to achieve. Zhang, department of electrical engineering and computer science, syracuse university, y.
Nested structure for secure errorcontrol codes for the wiretap channel. From information theory to security engineering, cambridge university press, 2011. The security of cryptographic protocols in information theoretic cryptography does not require any computational assumption based on computationally hard prob. In reallife implementations of quantum key distribution qkd, the physical systems with unwanted imperfections would be exploited by an eavesdropper. Traditional technical and organizational approaches do not consider economic factors, which are increasingly important to sustain information security investment. The basic principle of information theoretic security widely accepted as the. In genoguard, a potential adversary can attempt to guess keys or passwords exhaustively and decrypt via a bruteforce attack. Cryptographic security guarantees that the protocol is secure based on some computational assumptions e. Nicola laurenti1 1university of padova department of information engineering. Information theoretic capacity analysis in mimo distributed antenna systems. Pdf on wiretap codes, what they are, and what they. In recent times, information theoretic security has witnessed a renaissance due in part to the work of maurer in the 1990s, who proved that even when a legitimate user has a worse channel than an eavesdropper, it is possible for him to generate a secret key through public communication over an insecure yet authenticated channel.
On the security of the kirchhofflawjohnsonnoise kljn. The cryptosystem is considered cryptanalytically unbreakable if the adversary does not have enough information to break the encryption. This paper summarizes recent contributions of the authors and their coworkers in the area of information theoretic security. Manual authentication systems are studied in computational and information theoretic. Fundamental limits on information security and privacy. Informationtheoretic security in wireless networks. The pdf helps users forward data to their friends via multiple cooperative relay peers while preserving their identity and location privacy. We always assume pairwise shared private random keys between each pair of participants, which allows pairwise private authentic channels. Informationtheoretic security without an honest majority 411 all protocols we propose have polynomial complexity in the number of participants and the security parameter. Applying game theoretic models to political science analytical perspectives on politics pdf free report browse more videos.
Information theoretic security surveys the research dating back to the 1970s which forms the basis of applying this technique in modern systems. The basic wiretap channel model is considered first, and then several specific types of wiretap channels are considered, including gaussian, multiinput multioutput mimo, compound, and feedback wiretap channels, as well as the wiretap channel with side information. This study investigates the framework of associating multipleinputmultipleoutput mimo beamforming with secure code to achieve unconditional secure communications in the wireless passive eavesdropping environment. Information theoretic security in wireless networks. Information theoretic secrecy goals of information theoretic secrecy reliability legitimate receiver successfully decodes information security eavesdropper obtains as little information as possible yingbin liang syracuse university 2014 european it school april 16, 2014 11 2. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Vincent poor, fellow, ieee,and leiying,member, ieee abstractthe secrecy throughput of mobile ad hoc networks manets with malicious nodes is investigated. Information theoretic security foundations and trends in. The theoretician, in contrast to the practitioner, is spoiled. Being based on the deletion channel, it perfectly hides block boundaries from the eavesdropper, which enhances security further. Informationtheoretic broadcast with dishonest majority. Security and privacy are two important issues in social networks. The notion of informationtheoretic secrecy involves evaluating the mutual information between alices message m and eves received signal y e, or the entropy of alices message m conditioned on eves observation y e cf.
Best readings in communications and information systems security. Information theoretic security in wireless networks yingbin liang, h. Practical challenges in quantum key distribution npj. Foundations and trends in communications and information theory 5 45, 355580, 2009. Informationtheoretic analysis of xray scatter and phase.
Firstly, we propose a general construction of quantum publickey encryption scheme, and then construct an information theoretic secure instance. Program of the 2014 european school of information theory. We characterize the secrecy capacity as the saddlevalue of a minimax problem. The basic principle of informationtheoretic securitywidely accepted as the. Formalization of informationtheoretic security for. It is recommended for researchers interested in security and privacy concerns in mobile social networks. Network information theoretic security hongchao zhou school of information science and engineering shandong university qingdao, china email.
Patra presented the rst error free protocol to communicate oln bits with round, seed communication, and seed round complexities that do not depend. Wireless physical layer security eurasip journal on. Program 2014 european school of information theory. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings fo the 9th international conference on information theoretic security, icits 2016, held in tacoma, wa, usa, in august 2016. Pdf informationtheoretic security in wireless networks. Mclaughlin abstract in this twopart paper, we consider the transmission of con. Historically, information theoretic security, which builds on shannons notion of perfect secrecy, was laid in the 1970s by wyner and later by csiszar and korner, who proved seminal results showing that there exist channel codes guaranteeing both robustness to transmission errors and a. Information theoretic security university of maryland.
Among the related studies, the phylayer security framework pioneered in 15 proposes a fundamental informationtheoretic security metric termed as. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. May 05, 2019 with a particular focus on theoretical models and analytical results, leading researchers show how techniques derived from the principles of source and channel coding can provide new ways of addressing issues of data security, embedded security, privacy, and authentication in modern information systems. Seeing the multitude of topics in m ern cryptographyrequiring informationtheoreticalsecurity or using information theory, it is time to have a regular conference on this topic. He is also an international relations and security studies instructor to officers of the singapore armed forces. Jan 18, 2014 a simple and general proof is given for the information theoretic unconditional security of the kirchhofflawjohnsonnoise key exchange system under practical conditions. Information theoretic security of random network coding. Information theoretic security provides the theoretical basis behind wireless physical layer security. Optimal and errorfree multivalued byzantine consensus.
Cambridge university press 97811072269 information theoretic security and privacy of information systems edited by rafael f. Rajaratnam school of international studies, nanyang technological university, singapore. In contrast with this paradigm, there exist both theoretical and practical contributions that support the potential of physical layer security ideas to signi. An informationtheoretic framework for evaluating edge bundling visualization, jieting wu, feiyu zhu, xin liu, and hongfeng yu. Liang tuang nah is a research fellow with the military studies programme of the institute of defence and strategic studies s. Security and privacy in mobile social networks xiaohui. There are separate secure communication links for key exchange. Information theoretic security characterizes the fundamental ability of the physical layer to provide security confidentiality. The language theoretic approach langsec regards the internet insecurity epidemic as a consequence of ad hoc programming of input handling at all layers of network stacks, and in other kinds of software stacks. Ncsc whitepaper view 2 symmetric cryptography many extant standards for symmetric cryptography offer good security and regarded as quantumsafe provided. Secure communication with side information and constrained. The ergodic secrecy capacity of fading channels was derived independently by liang et al. In his seminal work 1, wyner considered this question for degraded wiretap channel model, which initiates the information theoretic security.
Publickey cryptosystems for quantum messages are considered from two aspects. Deep reinforcement learningenabled secure visible light. The basic wiretap channel model is considered first, and then several specific types. Information theoretic methods allow consideration of fundamental limits on privacy and security of information sources for secrecy in wireless networks, these limits come from the physical properties of the radio channel for data sources, the limits are in the form of a tradeoff between. Attention is focused on fundamental limits, and on the underlying proof techniques. Mar 22, 2010 information theoretic security provides the theoretical basis behind wireless physical layer security. Langsec posits that the only path to trustworthy software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language, and the respective inputhandling. Key generation from wireless channels semantic scholar. Based on imperfections in the detectors, detectorcontrol attacks have been successfully launched on several qkd systems and attracted widespread concerns. Shannons classic paper a mathematical theory of communication in the bell system technical journal in july and october 1948 prior to this paper, limited information theoretic ideas had been developed at bell labs, all implicitly assuming. Perfect secrecy is motivated by errorfree transmission and requires that bob and alice share a secret key. Some key results about information theoretic secrecy will be surveyed, both for scenarios without and with public communication. Information theoretic security and privacy of information systems.
Previously, we introduced an information theoretic approach to this problem by formulating a performance metric, based on cauchyschwarz mutual information, that is analogous to the channel capacity concept from communications engineering. Skoglund, information science and engineering department, school of electrical. Oechtering, information science and engineering department, school of electrical engineering and access linnaeus center, kth royal institute of technology, m. Physical layer security in fiberoptic mimosdm systems. Sustainability of information security investment in. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th international conference on information theoretic security, icits 20, held in singapore in november 20. Among other implications, our result establishes that a gaussian distribution maximizes the secrecy capacity characterization of csisz\ar and k\orner when applied to the mimome channel. Establishing fundamentals limits information theoretic limits for secure transmission of state estimation in the smart grid class presentation, mustafa elhalabi ecen 689. Among the related studies, the phylayer security framework pioneered in 15 proposes a fundamental information theoretic security metric termed as. However, they all have round, seed communication, and seed round complexities that increase with l. Information theoretic security is not considered necessary by most stakeholders for the vast majority of applications. For cost action grant awardee, this requirement is mandatory the recommended poster size is a single a0 page 1200 x 840 mm.
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