This paper investigates the problem of secret key generation over a wiretap channel when the terminals observe correlated sources. These sources are independent of the main channel and the users overhear them before the transmission takes place. A novel outer bound is proposed and, employing a previously reported inner bound, the secret key capacity is derived under certain less-noisy conditions on the channel or source components. This result improves upon the existing literature where the more stringent condition of degradedness is required. Furthermore, numerical evaluation of the achievable scheme and previously reported results for a binary model are presented; a comparison of the numerical bounds provides insights on the benefit of the chosen scheme.Entropy 2019, 21, 732 2 of 16 any relevant information about it to the eavesdropper (for further discussion, the reader is referred to [4,5]).In this work, we study the problem of secret key generation over a wiretap channel with correlated sources at each terminal. These sources are assumed to be independent of the main channel and there is no additional public broadcast channel of finite or infinite rate, as seen in Figure 1. It is assumed that each node acquires the n-sequence observation of its corresponding source before the communication begins.