Jamming-Resistant Communications Via Cryptographic Secret Sharing

Wireless communications, including satellite communications, rely on the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) and networking systems for a variety of tasks. But these wireless systems are found to be vulnerable to attacks. In this paper we focus on coping with the jamming attack and propose a new jamming-resistant communication scheme by leveraging the idea of cryptographic secret sharing, which can be further used together with existing defenses such as direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) and frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS). We characterize the effectiveness of the resulting schemes, leading to a number of findings.