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  Article: Unconditionally Secure Key Agreement and the Intrinsic Conditional Information

  Ueli Maurer, Senior Member, Stefan Wolf
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  ABSTRACT: This paper is concerned with secret-key agreement by public discussion. Assume that two parties Alice and Bob and an adversary Eve have access to independent realizations of random variables X , Y , and Z, respectively, with joint distribution PXY Z . The secret key rate S(X ; Y jjZ) has been defined as the maximal rate at which Alice and Bob can generate a secret key by communication over an insecure, but authenticated channel such that Eve's information about this key is arbitrarily small. We define a new conditional mutual information measure, the intrinsic conditional mutual information between X and Y when given Z, denoted by I(X ; Y # Z), which is an upper bound on S(X ; Y jjZ). The special scenarios are analyzed where X , Y , and Z are generated by sending a binary random variable R, for example a signal broadcast by a satellite, over independent channels, or two scenarios in which Z is generated by sending X and Y over erasure channels. In the first two scenarios it can be sho...
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