An overview of information-theoretic security and privacy: Metrics, limits and applications

Matthieu Bloch; Onur Günlü; Aylin Yener; Frédérique Oggier; H. Vincent Poor; Lalitha Sankar; Rafael F. Schaefer

doi:10.1109/JSAIT.2021.3062755

An overview of information-theoretic security and privacy: Metrics, limits and applications

Matthieu Bloch, Onur Günlü, Aylin Yener, Frédérique Oggier, H. Vincent Poor, Lalitha Sankar, Rafael F. Schaefer

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Abstract

This tutorial reviews fundamental contributions to information security. An integrative viewpoint is taken that explains the security metrics, including secrecy, privacy, and others, the methodology of information-theoretic approaches, along with the arising system design principles, as well as techniques that enable the information-theoretic designs to be applied in real communication and computing systems. The tutorial, while summarizing these contributions, argues for the simultaneous pivotal role of fundamental limits and coding techniques for secure communication system design.

Original language	English
Article number	9380147
Pages (from-to)	5-22
Number of pages	18
Journal	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAIT.2021.3062755
State	Published - Mar 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adversarial models
Coding
Information-theoretic security
Physical-layer security
Privacy
Secret key agreement
Security and privacy metrics
Wiretap channel

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