| Title | On measures of information theoretic security |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Authors | Liu, S., Hong, Y., Viterbo, E. |
| Conference Name | 2014 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2014) |
| Keywords | Australia, computational security, cryptography, Entropy, Human Behavior, ideal secrecy, information theoretic cryptosystem, information theoretic security, Information theory, Metrics, policy-based governance, probability, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, Shannon perfect secrecy, Vectors |
| Abstract | While information-theoretic security is stronger than computational security, it has long been considered impractical. In this work, we provide new insights into the design of practical information-theoretic cryptosystems. Firstly, from a theoretical point of view, we give a brief introduction into the existing information theoretic security criteria, such as the notions of Shannon's perfect/ideal secrecy in cryptography, and the concept of strong secrecy in coding theory. Secondly, from a practical point of view, we propose the concept of ideal secrecy outage and define a outage probability. Finally, we show how such probability can be made arbitrarily small in a practical cryptosystem. |
| DOI | 10.1109/ITW.2014.6970843 |
| Citation Key | liu_measures_2014 |
On measures of information theoretic security