Shifted LT Code Security Scheme for Partial Information Encryption

• Published in: Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 24; no. 12; p. 1776
• Main Authors: Zhang, Si, Niu, Fanglin, Wang, Lizheng, Yu, Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 05-12-2022; MDPI
• Subjects: anti-eavesdropping; Channel noise; Codes; Collaboration; Communication; Data encryption; Decoding; Eavesdropping; encryption; Information management; partial information transfer; Performance evaluation; physical layer security; rateless code; Safety and security measures; Security; Signal processing; Symbols; rateless code; anti-eavesdropping; partial information transfer; physical layer security; encryption
• ISSN: 1099-4300; 1099-4300
• DOI: 10.3390/e24121776

The existing physical layer security technology based on fountain codes needs to ensure that the legal channel is superior to the eavesdropping channel; when the quality of the legal channel and the eavesdropping channel are close, the information security cannot be guaranteed. Aiming at this problem, this paper proposes a shifted Luby transform (SLT) code security scheme for partial information encryption, which is mainly divided into two stages, partial information encryption transfer and degree distribution adjustment. The main idea is that the source randomly extracts part of the information symbols, and performs XOR encryption with the random sequence containing the main channel noise sent by the legitimate receiver. Afterward, the degree distribution is adjusted using the number of transfer information symbols received by the legitimate receiver to improve the average degree of the encoded codewords. Since the eavesdropper can only obtain fewer information symbols in the initial stage, it is difficult to decode the generated coded symbols after the degree distribution adjustment, thereby ensuring the safe transmission of information. The experimental results show that, compared with other LT anti-eavesdropping schemes, even if the legitimate channel is not dominant, the proposed scheme still has better security performance and less decoding overhead.