Privacy, Secrecy, and Storage with Nested Randomized Polar Subcode Constructions

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Contributors

  • Onur Gunlu - , University of Siegen (Author)
  • Peter Trifonov - , St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) (Author)
  • Muah Kim - , University of Siegen (Author)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , University of Siegen (Author)
  • Vladimir Sidorenko - , Technical University of Munich, Russian Academy of Sciences (Author)

Abstract

We consider a set of security and privacy problems under reliability and storage constraints that can be tackled by using codes and particularly focus on the secret-key agreement problem. Polar subcodes (PSCs) are polar codes (PCs) with dynamically-frozen symbols and have a larger code minimum distance than PCs with only statically-frozen symbols. A randomized nested PSC construction, where the low-rate code is a PSC and the high-rate code is a PC, is proposed for successive cancellation list (SCL) and sequential decoders. This code construction aims to perform lossy compression with side information, i.e., Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding. Nested PSCs are used in the key agreement problem with physical identifiers and two terminals since WZ-coding constructions significantly improve on Slepian-Wolf coding constructions such as fuzzy extractors. Significant gains in terms of the secret-key vs. storage rate ratio as compared to nested PCs with the same list sizes are illustrated to show that nested PSCs significantly improve on all existing code constructions. The performance of the nested PSCs is shown to improve with larger list sizes, unlike the nested PCs considered. A design procedure to efficiently construct nested PSCs and possible improvements to the nested PSC designs are also provided.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)514-525
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume70
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • coding for privacy, list decoding, physical unclonable functions (PUFs), Polar subcodes, sequential decoding