About | Contact Us | Register | Login
ProceedingsSeriesJournalsSearchEAI
Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 16th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2020, Washington, DC, USA, October 21-23, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

Research Article

An Encryption System for Securing Physical Signals

Download(Requires a free EAI acccount)
3 downloads
Cite
BibTeX Plain Text
  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-63086-7_13,
        author={Yisroel Mirsky and Benjamin Fedidat and Yoram Haddad},
        title={An Encryption System for Securing Physical Signals},
        proceedings={Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 16th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2020, Washington, DC, USA, October 21-23, 2020, Proceedings, Part I},
        proceedings_a={SECURECOMM},
        year={2020},
        month={12},
        keywords={Physical channel security Vernam Cipher Harmonic encryption FFT Signal encryption Waveforms},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-63086-7_13}
    }
    
  • Yisroel Mirsky
    Benjamin Fedidat
    Yoram Haddad
    Year: 2020
    An Encryption System for Securing Physical Signals
    SECURECOMM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63086-7_13
Yisroel Mirsky1,*, Benjamin Fedidat, Yoram Haddad
  • 1: Georgia Institute of Technology
*Contact email: yisroel@post.bgu.ac.il

Abstract

Secure communication is a necessity. However, encryption is commonly only applied to the upper layers of the protocol stack. This exposes network information to eavesdroppers, including the channel’s type, data rate, protocol, and routing information. This may be solved by encrypting the physical layer, thereby securing all subsequent layers. In order for this method to be practical, the encryption must be quick, preserve bandwidth, and must also deal with the issues of noise mitigation and synchronization.

In this paper, we present the Vernam Physical Signal Cipher (VPSC): a novel cipher which can encrypt the harmonic composition of any analog waveform. The VPSC accomplishes this by applying a modified Vernam cipher to the signal’s frequency magnitudes and phases. This approach is fast and preserves the signal’s bandwidth. In the paper, we offer methods for noise mitigation and synchronization, and evaluate the VPSC over a noisy wireless channel with multi-path propagation interference.

Keywords
Physical channel security Vernam Cipher Harmonic encryption FFT Signal encryption Waveforms
Published
2020-12-12
Appears in
SpringerLink
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63086-7_13
Copyright © 2020–2025 ICST
EBSCOProQuestDBLPDOAJPortico
EAI Logo

About EAI

  • Who We Are
  • Leadership
  • Research Areas
  • Partners
  • Media Center

Community

  • Membership
  • Conference
  • Recognition
  • Sponsor Us

Publish with EAI

  • Publishing
  • Journals
  • Proceedings
  • Books
  • EUDL