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Information-theoretic Security

Information-Theoretic Security is a branch of cryptography that achieves security by relying on the fundamental limits of information theory to guarantee secrecy, ensuring that an adversary cannot gain any information about the plaintext from the ciphertext, even with unlimited computational power.

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2017–2026

752

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Information Theoretic SecurityUnconditional Security

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A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms

Taher ElGamal · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1985 · 8K citations

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The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy

Cynthia Dwork, Aaron Roth · Foundations and Trends® in Theoretical Computer Science · 2014 · 4.2K citations

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Secret key agreement by public discussion from common information

Ueli Maurer · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1993 · 2.1K citations

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Physical One-Way Functions

Ravikanth Pappu, Ben Recht, Jason Taylor et al. · Science · 2002 · 2K citations · Full text

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Unconditional Security of Quantum Key Distribution over Arbitrarily Long Distances

Hoi-Kwong Lo, H. F. Chau · Science · 1999 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. HV
    H. Vincent Poor

    Princeton University, United States

    58 publications · 5.2K citations

    33

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  2. HW
    Hui‐Ming Wang

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

    23 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. UM
    Ueli Maurer

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    21 publications · 5.3K citations

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  4. MR
    Matthieu R. Bloch

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    26 publications · 1.7K citations

    18

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  5. NY
    Nan Yang

    Australian National University, Australia

    20 publications · 1.5K citations

    18

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Institutions

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  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    41 h-index

    125 publications

    11.5K citations

  2. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    31 h-index

    66 publications

    5.5K citations

  3. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    31 h-index

    114 publications

    6.9K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    30 h-index

    90 publications

    14.2K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    30 h-index

    80 publications

    6.9K citations

  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    26 h-index

    60 publications

    7.3K citations

  7. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    26 h-index

    49 publications

    4K citations

  8. Xidian University

    Xi'an, China

    26 h-index

    100 publications

    4.9K citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

    195 publications · 35.7K citations

    68

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

    65 publications · 5.2K citations

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  4. Journal of Cryptology

    61 publications · 4.9K citations

    39

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

    64 publications · 4.5K citations

    35

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