Method and System for Secure Key Generation over an Insecure Shared Communication Medium

Abstract

A method of shared key generation between three nodes through a shared communication medium includes performing, with a processor in a first node communicatively connected to a second node and a third node through a shared communication medium, a one-way function using a first shared key between the first node and the second node stored in a memory of the node and a predetermined counter as inputs to generate a first plurality of pseudo-random bits. The method includes generating, with the processor and a transceiver in the first node, a second shared key between the first node and the third node by transmitting each bit in the first plurality of pseudo-random bits to the third node through the shared communication medium simultaneously to transmission of random bits from the third node to the first node.

Type
Publication
United States Patent 10104048
Xinxin Fan
Xinxin Fan
Head of Cryptography

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