Wiretap Secret Key Capacity of Tree-PIN

Abstract: We consider the problem of multiterminal secret key agreement (SKA) in wiretapped source model where terminals have access to samples of correlated random variables from a publicly known joint probability distribution. The adversary has access to a side information variable, that is correlated with terminals' variables. We focus on a special type of terminal variables in this model, known as Tree-PIN, where the relation between variables of the terminals can be represented by a tree. The study of Tree-PIN source model is of practical importance as it can be realized in wireless network environments. We derive the wiretap secret key capacity of Tree-PIN with independent leakage, and give lower and upper bounds on the maximum achievable secret key length in finite-length regime. We then prove an upper bound and a lower bound for the wiretap secret key capacity of a wiretapped PIN and give two conditions for which these bounds are tight. We also extend our main result to two other related models and prove their corresponding capacities. At the end, we argue how our analysis suggests that public interaction is required for achieving the multiterminal WSK capacity.