Experimental aspects of secret key generation in indoor wireless environments

Author

Pierrot, Alexandre J. ; Chou, Remi A. ; Bloch, Matthieu R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

16-19 June 2013

Firstpage

669

Lastpage

673

Abstract

This paper proposes a proof-of-principle design of a secret key generation system along with the desirable secrecy analysis to guarantee information-theoretic security. We conduct physical experiments on programmable radios in an indoor environment to analyze the statistical characteristics of the induced source that we employ to generate secret keys. We also provide a generic security analysis of the system, and we give an estimate of the achievable secret key rates for a target information leakage in the finite block-length regime.

Keywords

indoor communication; information theory; statistical analysis; telecommunication security; experimental aspects; finite block-length regime; generic security analysis; indoor wireless environment; information-theoretic security; programmable radios; proof-of-principle design; secrecy analysis; secret key generation system; statistical characteristics; target information leakage; Communication system security; Conferences; Estimation; Gain; Privacy; Security; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2013 IEEE 14th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

ISSN

1948-3244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPAWC.2013.6612134

Filename

6612134