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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

SmokeGrenade: An Efficient Key Generation Protocol With Artificial Interference

Dajiang Chen, Zhen Qin, Xufei Mao, Panlong Yang, Zhiguang Qin, Ruijin Wang

Published Aug 16, 2013• 72 citations
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Abstract

Leveraging a wireless multipath channel as the source of common randomness, many key generation methods have been proposed according to the information-theory security. However, existing schemes suffer a low generation rate and a low entropy, and mainly rely on nodes' mobility. To overcome this limitation, we present a key generation protocol with known artificial interference, named SmokeGrenade, a new physical-layer approach for secret key generation in a narrowband fading channel. Our scheme utilizes artificial interference to contribute to the change of measured values on channel states. Our theoretical analysis shows that the key generation rate increases with the increment of the interference power. Particularly, the achievable key rate of SmokeGrenade gains three times better than that of the traditional key generation schemes when the average interference power is normalized to 1. Simulation results also demonstrate that SmokeGrenade achieves a higher generation rate and entropy compared with some state-of-the-art approaches.

DOI
10.1109/tifs.2013.2278834

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Leveraging a wireless multi-path channel as a source of common randomness, a number of key generation methods have been proposed according to information-theory security. However, by taking the advantages of node's mobility, existing schemes usually have low generation rate or low entropy. To overcome this limitation, we present a key generation protocol with known Artificial Interference, named Smoke Grenade, a new physical-layer approach for secret key generations in a narrowband fading channel. Our scheme utilizes artificial interference to contribute to the change of the measured values on channel states. The theoretical analysis shows that the key generation rate rises with the increment of the interference power. Particularly, the achievable key rate of Smoke Grenade achieves at least four times better than that of traditional key generation schemes when the average interference power is normalized to 1. Simulation results also show that Smoke Grenade has a higher generation rate and entropy compared with some known state-of-the-art approaches.
By exploiting multipath fading channels as a source of common randomness, physical layer (PHY) based key generation protocols allow two terminals with correlated observations to generate secret keys with information-theoretical security. The state of the art, however, still suffers from major limitations,e.g., low key generation rate, lower entropy of key bits and a high reliance on node mobility. In this paper, a novel cooperative key generation protocol is developed to facilitate high-rate key generation in narrowband fading channels, where two keying nodes extract the phase randomness of the fading channel with the aid of relay node(s). For the first time, we explicitly consider the effect of estimation methods on the extraction of secret key bits from the underlying fading channels and focus on a popular statistical method - maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). The performance of the cooperative key generation scheme is extensively evaluated theoretically. We successfully establish both a theoretical upper bound on the maximum secret key rate from mutual information of correlated random sources and a more practical upper bound from Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) in estimation theory. Numerical examples and simulation studies are also presented to demonstrate the performance of the cooperative key generation system. The results show that the key rate can be improved by a couple of orders of magnitude compared to the existing approaches.
Recently, there has been great interest in physical layer security techniques that exploit the randomness of wireless channels for securely extracting cryptographic keys. Several interesting approaches have been developed and demonstrated for their feasibility. The state-of-the-art, however, still has much room for improving their practicality. This is because i) the key bit generation rate supported by most existing approaches is very low which significantly limits their practical usage given the intermittent connectivity in mobile environments; ii) existing approaches suffer from the scalability and flexibility issues, i.e., they cannot be directly extended to support efficient group key generation and do not suit for static environments. With these observations in mind, we present a new secret key generation approach that utilizes the uniformly distributed phase information of channel responses to extract shared cryptographic keys under narrowband multipath fading models. The proposed approach enjoys a high key bit generation rate due to its efficient introduction of multiple randomized phase information within a single coherence time interval as the keying sources. The proposed approach also provides scalability and flexibility because it relies only on the transmission of periodical extensions of unmodulated sinusoidal beacons, which allows effective accumulation of channel phases across multiple nodes. The proposed scheme is thoroughly evaluated through both analytical and simulation studies. Compared to existing work that focus on pairwise key generation, our approach is highly scalable and can improve the analytical key bit generation rate by a couple of orders of magnitude.
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Key agreement is one the most essential steps when applying cryptographic techniques to secure device‐to‐device (D2D) communications. Recently, several PHY‐based solutions have been proposed by leveraging the channel gains as a common randomness source for key extraction in wireless networks. However, these schemes usually suffer a low rate of key generation and low entropy of generated key and rely on the mobility of devices. In this paper, a novel secret key extraction protocol is proposed by using interference in wireless D2D fading channel. It establishes symmetrical keys for two wireless devices by measuring channel gains and utilizing artificial jamming sent by the third party to change the measured value of channel gains. We give a theoretically reachable key rate of the proposed scheme from the viewpoint of the information theory. It shows that the proposed scheme can make hundred times performance gain than the existing approaches theoretically. Experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed scheme can achieve a secure key distribution with a higher key rate and key entropy compared with the existing schemes.