TY - JOUR
T1 - Provably secure three-party authenticated quantum key distribution protocols
AU - Hwang, Tzonelih
AU - Lee, Kuo Chang
AU - Li, Chuan Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful and valuable comments to enhance the clarity of the manuscript. This research is supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C., under the Contract No. NSC 92-2218-E-006-106.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This work presents quantum key distribution protocols (QKDPs) to safeguard security in large networks, ushering in new directions in classical cryptography and quantum cryptography. Two three-party QKDPs, one with implicit user authentication and the other with explicit mutual authentication, are proposed to demonstrate the merits of the new combination, which include the following: 1) security against such attacks as man-in-the-middle, eavesdropping and replay, 2) efficiency is improved as the proposed protocols contain the fewest number of communication rounds among existing QKDPs, and 3) two parties can share and use a long-term secret (repeatedly). To prove the security of the proposed schemes, this work also presents a new primitive called the Unbiased-Chosen Basis (UCB) assumption.
AB - This work presents quantum key distribution protocols (QKDPs) to safeguard security in large networks, ushering in new directions in classical cryptography and quantum cryptography. Two three-party QKDPs, one with implicit user authentication and the other with explicit mutual authentication, are proposed to demonstrate the merits of the new combination, which include the following: 1) security against such attacks as man-in-the-middle, eavesdropping and replay, 2) efficiency is improved as the proposed protocols contain the fewest number of communication rounds among existing QKDPs, and 3) two parties can share and use a long-term secret (repeatedly). To prove the security of the proposed schemes, this work also presents a new primitive called the Unbiased-Chosen Basis (UCB) assumption.
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U2 - 10.1109/TDSC.2007.13
DO - 10.1109/TDSC.2007.13
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847744655
SN - 1545-5971
VL - 4
SP - 71
EP - 80
JO - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
IS - 1
ER -