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Universal secure rank-metric coding schemes with optimal communication overheads
We study the problem of reducing the communication overhead from a noisy
wire-tap channel or storage system where data is encoded as a matrix, when more
columns (or their linear combinations) are available. We present its
applications to reducing communication overheads in universal secure linear
network coding and secure distributed storage with crisscross errors and
erasures and in the presence of a wire-tapper. Our main contribution is a
method to transform coding schemes based on linear rank-metric codes, with
certain properties, to schemes with lower communication overheads. By applying
this method to pairs of Gabidulin codes, we obtain coding schemes with optimal
information rate with respect to their security and rank error correction
capability, and with universally optimal communication overheads, when , being and the number of columns and number of rows,
respectively. Moreover, our method can be applied to other families of maximum
rank distance codes when . The downside of the method is generally
expanding the packet length, but some practical instances come at no cost.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX; parts of this paper have been accepted for
presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,
Aachen, Germany, June 201
New Parameters of Linear Codes Expressing Security Performance of Universal Secure Network Coding
The universal secure network coding presented by Silva et al. realizes secure
and reliable transmission of a secret message over any underlying network code,
by using maximum rank distance codes. Inspired by their result, this paper
considers the secure network coding based on arbitrary linear codes, and
investigates its security performance and error correction capability that are
guaranteed independently of the underlying network code. The security
performance and error correction capability are said to be universal when they
are independent of underlying network codes. This paper introduces new code
parameters, the relative dimension/intersection profile (RDIP) and the relative
generalized rank weight (RGRW) of linear codes. We reveal that the universal
security performance and universal error correction capability of secure
network coding are expressed in terms of the RDIP and RGRW of linear codes. The
security and error correction of existing schemes are also analyzed as
applications of the RDIP and RGRW.Comment: IEEEtran.cls, 8 pages, no figure. To appear in Proc. 50th Annual
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton 2012).
Version 2 added an exact expression of the universal error correction
capability in terms of the relative generalized rank weigh
Relative Generalized Rank Weight of Linear Codes and Its Applications to Network Coding
By extending the notion of minimum rank distance, this paper introduces two
new relative code parameters of a linear code C_1 of length n over a field
extension and its subcode C_2. One is called the relative
dimension/intersection profile (RDIP), and the other is called the relative
generalized rank weight (RGRW). We clarify their basic properties and the
relation between the RGRW and the minimum rank distance. As applications of the
RDIP and the RGRW, the security performance and the error correction capability
of secure network coding, guaranteed independently of the underlying network
code, are analyzed and clarified. We propose a construction of secure network
coding scheme, and analyze its security performance and error correction
capability as an example of applications of the RDIP and the RGRW. Silva and
Kschischang showed the existence of a secure network coding in which no part of
the secret message is revealed to the adversary even if any dim C_1-1 links are
wiretapped, which is guaranteed over any underlying network code. However, the
explicit construction of such a scheme remained an open problem. Our new
construction is just one instance of secure network coding that solves this
open problem.Comment: IEEEtran.cls, 25 pages, no figure, accepted for publication in IEEE
Transactions on Information Theor
On the Security of Index Coding with Side Information
Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are
investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the
properties of linear index codes are further explored. The notion of weak
security, considered by Bhattad and Narayanan (2005) in the context of network
coding, is generalized to block security. It is shown that the linear index
code based on a matrix , whose column space code has length ,
minimum distance and dual distance , is -block secure
(and hence also weakly secure) if the adversary knows in advance
messages, and is completely insecure if the adversary knows in advance more
than messages. Strong security is examined under the conditions that
the adversary: (i) possesses messages in advance; (ii) eavesdrops at most
transmissions; (iii) corrupts at most transmissions. We prove
that for sufficiently large , an optimal linear index code which is strongly
secure against such an adversary has length . Here
is a generalization of the min-rank over of the side
information graph for the ICSI problem in its original formulation in the work
of Bar- Yossef et al.Comment: 14 page
Message Randomization and Strong Security in Quantum Stabilizer-Based Secret Sharing for Classical Secrets
We improve the flexibility in designing access structures of quantum
stabilizer-based secret sharing schemes for classical secrets, by introducing
message randomization in their encoding procedures. We generalize the
Gilbert-Varshamov bound for deterministic encoding to randomized encoding of
classical secrets. We also provide an explicit example of a ramp secret sharing
scheme with which multiple symbols in its classical secret are revealed to an
intermediate set, and justify the necessity of incorporating strong security
criterion of conventional secret sharing. Finally, we propose an explicit
construction of strongly secure ramp secret sharing scheme by quantum
stabilizers, which can support twice as large classical secrets as the
McEliece-Sarwate strongly secure ramp secret sharing scheme of the same share
size and the access structure.Comment: Publisher's Open Access PDF. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1811.0521
Network Codes Resilient to Jamming and Eavesdropping
We consider the problem of communicating information over a network secretly
and reliably in the presence of a hidden adversary who can eavesdrop and inject
malicious errors. We provide polynomial-time, rate-optimal distributed network
codes for this scenario, improving on the rates achievable in previous work.
Our main contribution shows that as long as the sum of the adversary's jamming
rate Zo and his eavesdropping rate Zi is less than the network capacity C,
(i.e., Zo+Zi<C), our codes can communicate (with vanishingly small error
probability) a single bit correctly and without leaking any information to the
adversary. We then use this to design codes that allow communication at the
optimal source rate of C-Zo-Zi, while keeping the communicated message secret
from the adversary. Interior nodes are oblivious to the presence of adversaries
and perform random linear network coding; only the source and destination need
to be tweaked. In proving our results we correct an error in prior work by a
subset of the authors in this work.Comment: 6 pages, to appear at IEEE NetCod 201
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