Path-Controlled Secure Network Coding

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Main Authors: Sasaki, Masahide, Han, Te Sun, Fujiwara, Mikio, Li, Kai, Hambrey, Oliver, Esumi, Atsushi
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Published: 2025
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author Sasaki, Masahide
Han, Te Sun
Fujiwara, Mikio
Li, Kai
Hambrey, Oliver
Esumi, Atsushi
author_facet Sasaki, Masahide
Han, Te Sun
Fujiwara, Mikio
Li, Kai
Hambrey, Oliver
Esumi, Atsushi
contents Multicast for securely sharing confidential data among many users is becoming increasingly important. Currently, it relies on duplicate-and-forward routing and cryptographic methods based on computational security. However, these approaches neither attain multicast capacity of the network, nor ensure long-term security against advances in computing (information-theoretic security: ITS). Existing ITS solutions--quantum key distribution (QKD), physical layer security (PLS), and secure network coding (SNC)--still fail to enable scalable networks, as their underlying assumptions, such as trusted nodes and wiretap thresholds, gradually become invalid as the network grows. Here, we develop an efficient multi-tree multicast path-finding method to address this issue, integrating it with universal strongly ramp SNC. This system, path-controlled universal strongly ramp SNC (PUSNEC), can be overlaid onto QKD/PLS networks, enabling multicast capacity, ITS, and scalability. We derive the maximum leakage information to an eavesdropper under the probabilistic wiretap network assumption and demonstrate secure multicast in multi-hop networks through numerical simulations. Our quantitative analysis of the secrecyreliability tradeoff highlights a practical approach to achieving secure, reliable multicast on a global scale.
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spellingShingle Path-Controlled Secure Network Coding
Sasaki, Masahide
Han, Te Sun
Fujiwara, Mikio
Li, Kai
Hambrey, Oliver
Esumi, Atsushi
Information Theory
Quantum Physics
Multicast for securely sharing confidential data among many users is becoming increasingly important. Currently, it relies on duplicate-and-forward routing and cryptographic methods based on computational security. However, these approaches neither attain multicast capacity of the network, nor ensure long-term security against advances in computing (information-theoretic security: ITS). Existing ITS solutions--quantum key distribution (QKD), physical layer security (PLS), and secure network coding (SNC)--still fail to enable scalable networks, as their underlying assumptions, such as trusted nodes and wiretap thresholds, gradually become invalid as the network grows. Here, we develop an efficient multi-tree multicast path-finding method to address this issue, integrating it with universal strongly ramp SNC. This system, path-controlled universal strongly ramp SNC (PUSNEC), can be overlaid onto QKD/PLS networks, enabling multicast capacity, ITS, and scalability. We derive the maximum leakage information to an eavesdropper under the probabilistic wiretap network assumption and demonstrate secure multicast in multi-hop networks through numerical simulations. Our quantitative analysis of the secrecyreliability tradeoff highlights a practical approach to achieving secure, reliable multicast on a global scale.
title Path-Controlled Secure Network Coding
topic Information Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21115