Title
The Passive Eavesdropper Affects my Channel: Secret-Key Rates under Real-World Conditions (Extended Version).
Abstract
Channel-reciprocity based key generation (CRKG) has gained significant importance as it has recently been proposed as a potential lightweight security solution for IoT devices. However, the impact of the attackeru0027s position in close range has only rarely been evaluated in practice, posing an open research problem about the security of real-world realizations. Furthermore, this would further bridge the gap between theoretical channel models and their practice-oriented realizations. For security metrics, we utilize cross-correlation, mutual information, and a lower bound on secret-key capacity. We design a practical setup of three parties such that the channel statistics, although based on joint randomness, are always reproducible. We run experiments to obtain channel states and evaluate the aforementioned metrics for the impact of an attacker depending on his position. It turns out the attacker himself affects the outcome, which has not been adequately regarded yet in standard channel models.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Information Theory
Open research,Key generation,Mathematical optimization,Close range,Computer security,Upper and lower bounds,Internet of Things,Communication channel,Computer network,Mutual information,Mathematics,Randomness
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1701.03904
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian T. Zenger1141.70
Hendrik Vogt283.90
Jan Zimmer371.12
Aydin Sezgin459675.27
Christof Paar53794442.62