Strongly Secure Linear Network Coding

  • Authors:
  • Kunihiko Harada;Hirosuke Yamamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In a network with capacity h for multicast, information Xh = (X1, X2, ₀, Xh) can be transmitted from a source node to sink nodes without error by a linear network code. Furthermore, secret information Sr = (S1, S2, ₀, Sr) can be transmitted securely against wiretappers by k-secure network coding for k ≤ h-r. In this case, no information of the secret leaks out even if an adversary wiretaps k edges, i.e. channels. However, if an adversary wiretaps k + 1 edges, some Si may leak out explicitly. In this paper, we propose strongly k-secure network coding based on strongly secure ramp secret sharing schemes. In this coding, no information leaks out for every (Si1, Si2, ₀, Sir-j) even if an adversary wiretaps k ± j channels. We also give an algorithm to construct a strongly k-secure network code directly and a transform to convert a nonsecure network code to a strongly k-secure network code. Furthermore, some sufficient conditions of alphabet size to realize the strongly k-secure network coding are derived for the case of k .