Towards characterizing when information-theoretic secret key agreement is possible

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1163, Issue , 1996, Pages 196-209

  Maurer, Ueli ^a   Wolf, Stefan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryptography; Information theory; Secret key agreement; Unconditional security

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; RANDOM VARIABLES; SECURITY OF DATA;

BINARY RANDOM VARIABLES; INDEPENDENT CHANNELS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM BITS; SECRET KEY AGREEMENT; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; THREE-PARTY; UNCONDITIONAL SECURITY;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84955584118     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0034847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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