  This work is motivated by recent results of Csiszar and Narayan (IEEE Trans.
on Inform. Theory, Dec. 2004), which highlight innate connections between
secrecy generation by multiple terminals and multiterminal Slepian-Wolf
near-lossless data compression (sans secrecy restrictions). We propose a new
approach for constructing secret and private keys based on the long-known
Slepian-Wolf code for sources connected by a virtual additive noise channel,
due to Wyner (IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, Jan. 1974). Explicit procedures
for such constructions, and their substantiation, are provided.
