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A Study of Injection and Jamming Attacks in Wireless Secret Sharing Systems

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Secret key generation (SKG) schemes have been shown to be vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks in the form of jamming and to man in the middle attacks implemented as injection attacks. In this paper, a comprehensive study on the impact of correlated and uncorrelated jamming and injection attacks in wireless SKG systems is presented. First, two optimal signalling schemes for the legitimate users are proposed and the impact of injection attacks as well as counter-measures are investigated. Finally, it is demonstrated that the jammer should inject either correlated jamming when imperfect channel state information (CSI) regarding the main channel is at their disposal, or, uncorrelated jamming when the main channel CSI is completely unknown.

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    This assumption does not affect the nature of the conclusions reached. For more realistic channel models that account for correlation of the fading coefficients see [22] and related works.

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    Arsenia Chorti

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    Elizabeth A. Quaglia

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    Stefano Tomasin

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Chorti, A. (2018). A Study of Injection and Jamming Attacks in Wireless Secret Sharing Systems. In: Baldi, M., Quaglia, E., Tomasin, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Communication Security. WCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 447. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59265-7_1

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