For a physical layer message authentication procedure based on the comparison
of channel estimates obtained from the received messages, we focus on an outer
bound on the type I/II error probability region. Channel estimates are modelled
as multivariate Gaussian vectors, and we assume that the attacker has only some
side information on the channel estimate, which he does not know directly. We
derive the attacking strategy that provides the tightest bound on the error
region, given the statistics of the side information. This turns out to be a
zero mean, circularly symmetric Gaussian density whose correlation matrices may
be obtained by solving a constrained optimization problem. We propose an
iterative algorithm for its solution: Starting from the closed form solution of
a relaxed problem, we obtain, by projection, an initial feasible solution;
then, by an iterative procedure, we look for the fixed point solution of the
problem. Numerical results show that for cases of interest the iterative
approach converges, and perturbation analysis shows that the found solution is
a local minimum
