Key generation method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12438711-B2
Application number	US-202318095773-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2023
Priority date	Nov 2, 2020
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed are a key generation method, apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The key generation method comprises: obtaining a channel characteristic parameter of a wireless channel; generating a key according to the channel characteristic parameter; capturing after continuously generating multiple keys, a first key matrix by means of a sliding window having a preset length, to obtain a second key matrix; determining a correlation between keys in the second key matrix, and performing key substitution on the keys in the second key matrix when the correlation between the keys in the second key matrix is greater than a preset threshold; and adding the keys in the second key matrix to a key pool until the number of keys in the key pool reaches a preset number.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A key generation method comprising:
obtaining a channel characteristic parameter of a wireless channel;
generating a key according to the channel characteristic parameter;
capturing after continuously generating multiple keys, a first key matrix formed by a plurality of the keys by means of a sliding window having a preset length, to obtain a second key matrix;
determining a correlation between keys in the second key matrix, and performing key substitution on the keys in the second key matrix when the correlation between the keys in the second key matrix is greater than a preset threshold; and
adding the keys in the second key matrix to a key pool until the number of the keys in the key pool reaches a preset number.

2. The key generation method of claim 1 , wherein the channel characteristic parameter is obtained through a preset channel model of a narrow-band cluster ray model;
the channel characteristic parameter is a path gain parameter.

3. The key generation method of claim 1 , wherein generating the key according to the channel characteristic parameter comprises:
quantizing the channel characteristic parameter, wherein a step of quantization operation comprises:
determining a quantization threshold according to a preset quantization strategy;
mapping the channel characteristic parameter into a bit value according to the quantization threshold.

4. The key generation method of claim 3 , wherein the quantization strategy is a quantization strategy based on a probability density function.

5. The key generation method of claim 1 , wherein performing key substitution on the keys in the second key matrix comprises:
performing substitution operation on the last key in the second key matrix bit by bit, and determining the correlation of the keys in the second key matrix once each substitution operation is completed;
adding the keys in the second key matrix to the key pool when the correlation between the keys in the second key matrix is not greater than the preset threshold; wherein the key added to the key pool is the last key.

6. The key generation method of claim 5 , wherein after determining the correlation of the keys in the second key matrix once each substitution operation is completed, the method further comprises:
discarding the last key when the correlation between the keys in the second key matrix is greater than the preset threshold after all the bits of the last key are substituted.

7. The key generation method of claim 5 , wherein determining the correlation of the keys in the second key matrix comprises:
calculating an average Hamming distance of the keys in the second key matrix;
determining the correlation of the keys in the second key matrix according to the average Hamming distance.

8. The key generation method of claim 5 , wherein generating the key according to the channel characteristic parameter comprises:
quantizing the channel characteristic parameter, wherein a step of quantization operation comprises:
determining a quantization threshold according to a preset quantization strategy;
mapping the channel characteristic parameter into a bit value according to the quantization threshold.

9. An electronic device comprising:
at least one processor; and
a storage in communication with the at least one processor; wherein, the storage stores instructions that is executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed by the at least one processor, enables the at least one processor performs the key generation method of claim 1 .

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program when executed by the processor, implements the key generation method of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Lu Haitao
• Yang Lijun
• Chen Boqing
• Guo Lin

Classifications

• H04L9/14

  using a plurality of keys or algorithms · CPC title

• H04L2209/80

  Wireless · CPC title

• H04L9/0869 Primary

  involving random numbers or seeds · CPC title

• H04L9/0875 Primary

  based on channel impulse response [CIR] · CPC title

• H04L9/0861 Primary

  Generation of secret information including derivation or calculation of cryptographic keys or passwords · CPC title