Contributions to Information Theoretically Secure Communication
| dc.contributor.advisor | Safavi-Naini, Reihanah | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sharifian, Setareh | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Jacobson, Michael | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Williamson, Carey L. | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Ruhe, Günther | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Simon, Christoph | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Narayan, Prakash | |
| dc.date | 2020-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-20T17:06:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-20T17:06:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-05-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Secure communication ensures the integrity and confidentiality of communication between connected devices. An information-theoretic approach to secure communication gives the strongest confidentiality guarantee by assuming that the attacker has unlimited computing power. The earliest formal model and definition of information-theoretic secure communication is by Shannon, who employed a secret key shared between communicating parties to provide confidentiality. An alternative elegant information-theoretic approach to secure communication views the natural characteristics of the environment (i.e., channel’s noise) as a resource to build security functionalities. This approach was first proposed by Wyner, and the corresponding secure communication model is called the wiretap channel model. These two approaches introduce two primary resources for providing information-theoretic secure communication: the shared secret key and physical properties of the communication medium. In this thesis, we study how to employ the above two resources for secure message transmission. We study this by using channel’s noise in the wiretap channel model. In this model, a sender is connected to the receiver and the adversary through two noisy channels. We propose a new wiretap encoding scheme with strong secrecy that provides perfect secrecy and reliability, asymptotically. The construction treats the noise in the adversary’s channel as a source of randomness that is extracted and used to hide the message from the adversary. We realize the wiretap channel model using cooperative jamming to evaluate the performance of wiretap codes in practice. We consider a model called keyed wiretap channel that unifies Wyner’s model with Shannon’s model of perfect secrecy for information systems, and propose a keyed encoding schemes with strong secrecy and other properties that are attractive in practice. We also study two-party information-theoretic secret key agreement when the two parties have access to samples of a common source of randomness and use a single message transmission to arrive at a shared random key. We propose a secret key agreement protocol in this setting, prove its security, and show its superior performance compared to other known protocols with the same properties. Finally, we propose an information-theoretic secret key agreement over a virtual wiretap channel created by cooperative jamming. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sharifian, S. (2020). Contributions to Information Theoretically Secure Communication (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37868 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112107 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Science | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Information Theoretic Security | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wiretap Channel | en_US |
| dc.subject | Secret Key Establishment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physical-layer Security | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Computer Science | en_US |
| dc.title | Contributions to Information Theoretically Secure Communication | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Computer Science | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
| ucalgary.item.requestcopy | true | en_US |