Wireless secret key generation versus capable adversaries

Description

This dissertation applies theories and concepts of wireless communications and
signal processing to the security domain to assess the security of a Wireless secret
Key Generation (WKG) system against capable eavesdroppers, who employ all the
feasible tools to compromise the system’s security. The security of WKG is evaluated
via real wireless measurements, where adversary knows and applies appropriate signal
processing tools in ordere to predict the generated key with the communicating
pair. It is shown that in a broadband stationary wireless communication channel,
(e.g. commercial off-the-shelf 802.11 WLAN devices), a capable eavesdropper can
recover a large portion of the secret key bits. However, in an Ultra-wideband (UWB)
communication, at the same stationary environment, secret key rates of 128 bits per
channel probe are achievable. / Graduate

Links & Downloads

1. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3766
2. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, Neville, S.W., McGuire, M.L., “On the Limits of Wireless Key Generation against Capable Eavesdroppers”, To be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
3. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, Neville, S.W., McGuire, M.L., “Secret Key Generation via Wireless Channel Characterization: Addressing Temporal Correlations through Beamforming”, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Oct 2011.
4. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, Neville, S.W., McGuire, M.L., Dong, X., Horie, M. “Secret Key Generation via UWB Communication”, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Jan 2011.
5. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, Neville, S.W., McGuire, M.L., “Time Correlation Analysis of Secret Key Generation via UWB Channels”, IEEE Globecom, Florida, USA, Dec 2010.
6. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, He, S., McGuire, M.L., Neville, S.W., Dong, X., “Verification of Secret Key Generation from UWB Channel Observations”, IEEE ICC, Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
7. Shuai He; Dong, X.; Tian, Z.; Liu, T.C.-K.; Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh; McGuire, M.L.; Neville, S.W.; Tin, N., “On the Empirical Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Ultra-Wideband Channel”, IEEE VTC, Barcelona, Spain, April 2009.
8. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, McGuire, M.L., Neville, S.W., Cai, L., Horie, M., “Secret Key Generation and Agreement in UWB Communication Channels”, IEEE Globecom, New Orleans, USA, Nov 2008.
9. Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, McGuire, M.L., Neville, S.W., Horie, M., He, S., Dong, X., “Secure Key Generation and Agreement in UWB Communication”, submitted to: Security Engineering Techniques and Solutions for Information Systems: Management and Implementation, April 2009.

Tags

Wireless Secret Key Generation

Wireless Security

Point to Point Secure Communication

Secret Key Capacity

Wire-tap channel

Public Discussion

Wireless Channel Characterization

Ultrawide Band communication channels

WLAN

IEEE 802.11

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/3766
Date	22 December 2011
Creators	Ghoreishi Madiseh, Masoud
Contributors	McGuire, Michael Liam, Neville, Stephen William
Source Sets	University of Victoria
Language	English, English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis
Rights	Available to the World Wide Web