| Title | Benefits of Physical Layer Security to Cryptography: Tradeoff and Applications |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Mucchi, Lorenzo, Nizzi, Francesca, Pecorella, Tommaso, Fantacci, Romano, Esposito, Flavio |
| Conference Name | 2019 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom) |
| Date Published | jun |
| Keywords | Ciphers, classical cryptography, composability, computational power, cryptography, Encryption, Force, initial performance analysis, Internet of Things, Internet of Things applications, IoT, IoT devices, Metrics, physical layer security, PLS, Protocols, pubcrawl, radiocommunication, Receivers, resilience, Resiliency, typical cryptography, wireless communication protocols |
| Abstract | Physical-layer security (PLS) has raised the attention of the research community in recent years, particularly for Internet of things (IoT) applications. Despite the use of classical cryptography, PLS provides security at physical layer, regardless of the computational power owned by the attacker. The investigations on PLS are numerous in the literature, but one main issue seems to be kept apart: how to measure the benefit that PLS can bring to cryptography? This paper tries to answer this question with an initial performance analysis of PLS in conjunction with typical cryptography of wireless communication protocols. Our results indicate that PLS can help cryptography to harden the attacker job in real operative scenario: PLS can increase the detection errors at the attacker's receiver, leading to inability to recover the cipher key, even if the plaintext is known. |
| DOI | 10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2019.8812778 |
| Citation Key | mucchi_benefits_2019 |
Benefits of Physical Layer Security to Cryptography: Tradeoff and Applications