Key Distribution Protocols Based on Extractors Under the Condition of Noisy Channels in the Presence of an Active Adversary

We consider in this paper the information-theoretic secure key distribution problem over main and wire-tap noise channels with a public discussion in presence of an active adversary. In contrast to the solution proposed by ourselves for a similar problem using hashing for privacy amplication, in the current paper we use a technique of extractors. We propose modied key distribution protocols for which we prove explicit estimates of key rates without the use of estimates with uncertain coecients in notations O; ; . This leads in the new conclusion that the use of extractors is superior to the use of hash functions only with the very large key lengths ‘ (of order ‘ > 10 5 bits). We suggest hybrid key distribution protocols consisting from two consecutively executed stages. At the st stage it is generated a short authentication key based on hash function, whereas at the second stage it is generated the nal key with the use of extractors. We show that in fact the use of extraction procedure is eective only at the second stage. We get also some constructive estimates of the key rates for such protocols.