On the Computability of the Secret Key Capacity under Rate Constraints

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Beitragende

  • Holger Boche - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , Technische Universität Berlin (Autor:in)
  • H. Vincent Poor - , Princeton University (Autor:in)

Abstract

Secret key generation refers to the problem of generating a common secret key without revealing any information about it to an eaves-dropper. All users observe correlated components of a common source and can further use a rate-limited public channel for discussion which is open to eavesdroppers. This paper studies the Turing computability of the secret key capacity with a single rate-limited public forward transmission. Turing computability provides fundamental performance limits for today's digital computers. It is shown that the secret key capacity under rate constraints is not Turing computable, and consequently there is no algorithm that can simulate or compute the secret key capacity, even if there are no limitations on computational complexity and computing power. On the other hand, if there are no rate constraints on the forward transmission, the secret key capacity is Turing computable. This shows that restricting the communication rate over the public channel transforms a Turing computable problem into a non-computable problem. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that such a phenomenon has been observed.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seiten2427-2431
Seitenumfang5
ISBN (elektronisch)978-1-4799-8131-1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Mai 2019
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheInternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Band2019-May
ISSN1520-6149

Konferenz

Titel44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019
Dauer12 - 17 Mai 2019
StadtBrighton
LandGroßbritannien/Vereinigtes Königreich

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878317

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • rate constraint, secret key capacity, Secret key generation, Turing computability