Apparatus and method for secure communication based on channel c

Details Apparatus and method for secure communication based on channel c Apparatus and method for secure communication based on channel c

1998-01-29

2000-02-29

Hayes, Gail O.

Cryptography

Key management

Having particular key generator

380 21, H04L 900

Patent

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060319135

ABSTRACT:
Characteristics of a communication channel are used to establish key sequences for use in encrypting communicated information. In one embodiment, these characteristics are the impedances of the channel viewed from one transceiver to the other and vice versa. The keys can be established with computations equivalent to a bounded distance decoding procedure, and the decoder used to establish a key may be used for processing the subsequent data transmission. Compared to classical and public-key cryptographic systems, an alternative mechanism for establishing and sharing key sequences that depends on a physical process is provided in which each party need not generate a pseudo-random quantity because the necessary randomness is provided by the properties of the communication channel itself. By using a channel decoder, the probability of two users establishing the same secret key is substantially unity, and the probability of an eavesdropper establishing the same key is substantially zero. Also, the number of possible keys is large enough that finding the correct one by exhaustive search is impractical.

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