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Quantum Cryptography Security

A quantum key distribution protocol for rapid denial of service detection

arXiv
Authors: Alasdair B. Price, John G. Rarity, Chris Erven

Year

2017

Paper ID

44685

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Preprint

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We introduce a quantum key distribution protocol designed to expose fake users that connect to Alice or Bob for the purpose of monopolising the link and denying service. It inherently resists attempts to exhaust Alice and Bob's initial shared secret, and is 100% efficient, regardless of the number of qubits exchanged above the finite key limit. Additionally, secure key can be generated from two-photon pulses, without having to make any extra modifications. This is made possible by relaxing the security of BB84 to that of the quantum-safe block cipher used for day-to-day encryption, meaning the overall security remains unaffected for useful real-world cryptosystems such as AES-GCM being keyed with quantum devices.

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  • We introduce a quantum key distribution protocol designed to expose fake users that connect to Alice or Bob for the purpose of monopolising the link and denying service.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1707.03331 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03331 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03331

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