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International Siberian Conference on Control and Communications

Experimental verification of possibility of secret encryption keys distribution with a phase method in a multipath environment

Alexey D. Smolyakov, Сулимов Амир Ильдарович, A. V. Karpov, Oleg N. Sherstyukov

Published Sep 1, 2013• 6 citations
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Abstract

The paper addresses a problem of creating a system for generation and distribution of shared secret encryption key based on the physical properties of multipath radio propagation. A multipath radio channel with reciprocal properties is considered as a source of shared randomness, as the phase of the passed through multipath environment signal becomes unpredictable. The paper presents the results of experimental verification of feasibility of the generation and distribution of shared secret encryption key based on measurements of random phase of a multipath signal. The problem of checking the symmetry of instances of the generated shared encryption key through the exchange of cyclic redundancy codes is considered. The probability of a bit asymmetry of the generated from the experimental phase measurements instances of the shared encryption key is evaluated. The effectiveness of encryption key distribution process is estimated.

DOI
10.1109/sibcon.2013.6693653

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The paper addresses a problem of creating a system for generation and distribution of shared secret encryption key based on the physical properties of multipath radio propagation. A multipath radio channel with reciprocal properties is considered as a source of shared randomness, as the phase of the passed through multipath environment signal becomes unpredictable. The paper presents the results of experimental verification of feasibility of the generation and distribution of shared secret encryption key based on measurements of random phase of a multipath signal. The problem of checking the symmetry of instances of the generated shared encryption key through the exchange of cyclic redundancy codes is considered. The probability of a bit asymmetry of the generated from the experimental phase measurements instances of the shared encryption key is evaluated. The effectiveness of encryption key distribution process is estimated.
The paper addresses a problem of creating a system for generation and distribution of shared secret encryption key based on the physical properties of multipath radio propagation. A multipath radio channel with reciprocal properties is considered as a source of shared randomness, as the phase of the passed through multipath environment signal becomes unpredictable. The paper presents a general block diagram of encryption key generation process. A method for estimating the rate of common secrete encryption key generation is proposed. An influence of physical parameters of the multipath environment on the encryption key generation rate is considered.
The Wireless Key Distribution is one of the most promising and fast growing areas in modern applied cryptography. This area covers various techniques of secure secret key distribution between two legitimate users who share a common radio channel with unpredictable signal fading in a multipath environment. In essence, the pair of legitimate nodes uses their multipath radio channel as a source of common randomness to establish a shared encryption key. There are a number of studies have been presented in recent publications devoted to experimental implementation of the Wireless Key Distribution using random variations in the received power of fading signal. Despite a number of valuable benefits, there is a much fewer experimental verifications of phase method with all of them are limited to a key distribution within some indoor environments only. Apparently, this is due to the technical difficulties of precise synchronization of legitimate users' equipment to provide coherent carrier phase measurements in a microwave radio frequency range. In this regard, our experiments can be considered as the first experimental verification of secure Wireless Key Distribution by observing random variations in the carrier phase of multipath signal at moving a mobile user within a real outdoor environment. To perform this, we used wireless Internet transmission of concurrent service data to maintain a required level of synchronization of one stationary and one mobile legal nodes. Despite the humble key generation rates we have achieved in practice, our results show possibility of secure wireless key distribution between the base station and mobile subscriber in a cellular communications scenario.
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Randomness of channel in wireless communication systems can be used to generate identical copies of secret encryption key at both sides of radio link. Such possibility is based on the channel reciprocity and on randomness of radio propagation paths between the legitimate users, which are unknown to possible adversaries. Users generate identical encryption keys from measurements of random parameters of multipath signal (e.g. carrier phase). In this paper, we investigate experimentally a possibility of malicious manipulation over the received multipath signal if a hostile transmitter emits an imitating pseudo signal, which contains some deterministic imposing modulation. In this case, the adversary forces the phase of the signal received by legal users to follow the external modulation known to him. Experimental dependence of the cross-correlation level between the phase measurements of the legal users and adversary on the power of imposing pseudo signal is presented.