@INPROCEEDINGS{Mucc1906:Benefits,
AUTHOR="Lorenzo Mucchi and Francesca Nizzi and Tommaso Pecorella and Romano
Fantacci and Flavio Esposito",
TITLE="Benefits of Physical Layer Security to Cryptography: Tradeoff and
Applications",
BOOKTITLE="2019 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and
Networking (BlackSeaCom) (IEEE BlackSeaCom 2019)",
ADDRESS="Sochi, Russia",
DAYS=2,
MONTH=jun,
YEAR=2019,
ABSTRACT="Abstract-Physical-layer security (PLS) has raised the attention of the
research community in recent years, particularly for Internet of things
(IoT) applications. Despite the use of classical cryptography, PLS provides
security at physical layer, regardless of the computational power owned by
the attacker. The investigations on PLS are numerous in the literature, but
one main issue seems to be kept apart: how to measure the benefit that PLS
can bring to cryptography? This paper tries to answer this question with an
initial performance analysis of PLS in conjunction with typical
cryptography of wireless communication protocols. Our results indicate that
PLS can help cryptography to harden the attacker job in real operative
scenario: PLS can increase the detection errors at the attacker's receiver,
leading to inability to recover the cipher key, even if the plaintext is
known."
}