TY - JOUR
T1 - Three-party authenticated lightweight quantum key distribution without pre-shared key between participants
AU - Liu, I. Cheng
AU - Hwang, Tzonelih
AU - Wei, Hsu Chen
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C., under the Contract No. MOST 108-2221-E-006-107-; MOST 109-2221-E-006 -168 -. The authors wish to thank Mr. Ming-Jun, Chen for his help in the revision of this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - This paper proposes a three-party authenticated lightweight quantum key distribution (TPALQKD) protocol. By utilizing a semi-honest third party (TP), the proposed protocol enables two lightweight participants to share a secret key without pre-share keys or establish any quantum channel between them. Compared with existing similar research, the proposed TPALQKD protocol reduces the quantum burden of participants, lowers the trustworthiness level required for the TP, and improves qubit efficiency. Furthermore, the proposed TPALQKD protocol has been extended to a quantum dialogue. The security analysis shows that the proposed protocol is robust against collective attacks.
AB - This paper proposes a three-party authenticated lightweight quantum key distribution (TPALQKD) protocol. By utilizing a semi-honest third party (TP), the proposed protocol enables two lightweight participants to share a secret key without pre-share keys or establish any quantum channel between them. Compared with existing similar research, the proposed TPALQKD protocol reduces the quantum burden of participants, lowers the trustworthiness level required for the TP, and improves qubit efficiency. Furthermore, the proposed TPALQKD protocol has been extended to a quantum dialogue. The security analysis shows that the proposed protocol is robust against collective attacks.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11128-023-04067-1
DO - 10.1007/s11128-023-04067-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168697807
SN - 1570-0755
VL - 22
JO - Quantum Information Processing
JF - Quantum Information Processing
IS - 8
M1 - 322
ER -