In this paper, firstly, we introduce a new security definition called secret key awareness security which is to guarantee anyone generating the public key to know the corresponding secret key. Following, we give a concrete implementing for secret key awareness security. Secondly, we present two applications: one is in plaintext awareness security cryptosystem, and another is in certificatless p...

Secret key extraction is a crucial issue in physical layer security and a less complex and, at the same time, a more robust scheme for the next generation of 5G and beyond. Unlike previous works on this topic, in which Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) sub-channels were considered to be independent, the effect of correlation between sub-channels on the secret key rate is address...

Conventional encryption technology often requires users to protect a secret key by selecting a password or passphrase. While a good passphrase will only be known to the user, it also has the flaw that it must be remembered exactly in order to recover the secret key. As time passes, the ability to remember the passphrase fades and the user may eventually lose access to the secret key. We propose...

THRESHOLD CRYPTOGRAPHY WITH CHINESE REMAINDER THEOREM Kamer Kaya Ph.D. in Computer Engineering Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Aydın Selçuk August, 2009 Information security has become much more important since electronic communication is started to be used in our daily life. The content of the term information security varies according to the type and the requirements of the area. However, no ...

Normally computer users use a passphrase or a password to encrypt secret values in computer systems. In this case, to prevent the brute–force attack, the password should be long enough and difficult to guess. But, such kind of passwords are also difficult for the human beings to remember. In this paper, we propose a method for protecting secret keys. A secret key means secret value like the pas...

Evaluate the effectiveness of secret key extraction, for private communication between two wireless devices, from the received signal strength (RSS) variations on the wireless channel between the two devices. In a variety of environments, RSS may vary due to lack of variations in the wireless channel; the extracted bits have very low entropy making these bits unsuitable for a secret key, In sig...

In the information exchange through network, the security risks always exist, that is eavesdropping, defacing, and spoofing by the attacker. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) will prevent such attacks. But key management is very serious problem in PKI. The public key certificate is issued and distributed by certificate authority, but we think that the updating of expired certificate etc. are very...

Secret sharing is one of the branches of threshold cryptography. Secret sharing is intended to secure a secret key s among a group G with n participants. Thus, the secret key s can be reconstructed by collecting shares of t or more participants. Recently, the secret sharing concept has been applied in securing DNSsec root key. However, the idea of DNSsec root key security is based on Shamir’s (...

Title of dissertation: INFORMATION THEORETIC SECRET KEY GENERATION: STRUCTURED CODES AND TREE PACKING Sirin Nitinawarat, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Prakash Narayan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research This dissertation deals with a multiterminal source model for secret key generation by multiple network terminals wi...

Consider the well-known oracle attack: somehow one gets a certain computation result as a function of a secret key from the secret key owner and tries to extract some information on the secret key. This attacking scenario is well understood in the cryptographic community. However, there are many protocols based on the discrete logarithm problem that turn out to leak many of the secret key bits ...