Explainable Adversarial Learning Framework on Physical Layer Secret Keys Combating Malicious Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

The development of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a double-edged sword to physical layer security (PLS). Whilst a legitimate RIS can yield beneficial impacts including increased channel randomness to enhance physical layer secret key generation (PL-SKG), malicious RIS can poison legitimate channels and crack most of existing PL-SKGs. In this work, we propose an adversarial learning framework between legitimate parties (namely Alice and Bob) to address this Man-in-the-middle malicious RIS (MITM-RIS) eavesdropping. First, the theoretical mutual information gap between legitimate …

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