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Based on quantum encryption, we present a new idea for quantum public-key cryptography (QPKC) and construct a whole theoretical framework of a QPKC system. We show that the quantum-mechanical nature renders it feasible and reasonable to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen , Su-Juan Qin , Fu-Chen Zhu

Recent results of Kaplan et al., building on previous work by Kuwakado and Morii, have shown that a wide variety of classically-secure symmetric-key cryptosystems can be completely broken by quantum chosen-plaintext attacks (qCPA). In such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Gorjan Alagic , Alexander Russell

A large number of quantum location verification protocols have been proposed. All existing protocols in this field are based on symmetric cryptography where verifiers and the prover use the same secret key. The prover obtains secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Muhammad Nadeem

The safety of a quantum key distribution system relies on the fact that any eavesdropping attempt on the quantum channel creates errors in the transmission. For a given error rate, the amount of information that may have leaked to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Huttner , N. Imoto , N. Gisin , T. Mor

In this paper, we study the security requirements for remote authentication with password protected smart card. In recent years, several protocols for password-based authenticated key exchange have been proposed. These protocols are used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Yongge Wang

The multiparty key exchange introduced in Steiner et al.\@ and presented in more general form by the authors is known to be secure against passive attacks. In this paper, an active attack is presented assuming malicious control of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Reto Schnyder , Juan Antonio Lopez-Ramos , Joachim Rosenthal , Davide Schipani

AI agents are increasingly deployed to interact with other agents on behalf of users and organizations. We ask whether two such agents, operated by different entities, can carry out a parallel secret conversation while still producing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Or Zamir

The dynamic establishment of shared information (e.g. secret key) between two entities is particularly important in networks with no pre-determined structure such as wireless sensor networks (and in general wireless mobile ad-hoc networks).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-12-18 V. Liagkou , E. Makri , P. Spirakis , Y. C. Stamatiou

Symmetric private information retrieval is a cryptographic task allowing a user to query a database and obtain exactly one entry without revealing to the owner of the database which element was accessed. The task is a variant of general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Esther Hänggi , Severin Winkler

The aim of this technical report is to complement the work in [To et al. 2014] by proposing a Group Key Exchange protocol so that the Querier and TDSs (and TDSs themselves) can securely create and exchange the shared key. Then, the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Quoc-Cuong To , Benjamin Nguyen , Philippe Pucheral

Security against simple eavesdropping attacks is demonstrated for a recently proposed quantum key distribution protocol which uses the Fibonacci recursion relation to enable high-capacity key generation with entangled photon pairs. No…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 David S. Simon , Casey Fitzpatrick , Alexander V. Sergienko

Entropically secure encryption is a way to encrypt a large plaintext with a small key and still have information-theoretic security, thus in a certain sense circumventing Shannon's result that perfect encryption requires the key to be at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Mehmet Huseyin Temel , Boris Skoric

This paper presents a novel pre-shared key (PSK) agreement scheme to establish a secure connection between a Wi-Fi client and access point (AP) without prior knowledge of a password. The standard IEEE 802.11 security method, Robust Security…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Seokseong Jeon , Chansu Yu , Young-Joo Suh

We introduce a simple, practical approach with probabilistic information-theoretic security to mitigate one of quantum key distribution's major limitations: the short maximum transmission distance (~200 km) possible with present day…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-23 Travis R. Beals , Barry C. Sanders

Motivated by the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol, introduced in 1984 in the seminal paper of Bennett and Brassard, we investigate in this paper the achievability of unconditionally secure password-authenticated quantum key exchange…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Céline Chevalier , Marc Kaplan , Quoc Huy Vu

The concept of anamorphic encryption, first formally introduced by Persiano et al. in their influential 2022 paper titled ``Anamorphic Encryption: Private Communication Against a Dictator,'' enables embedding covert messages within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sayantan Ganguly , Shion Samadder Chaudhury

We consider the problem of secure identification: user U proves to server S that he knows an agreed (possibly low-entropy) password w, while giving away as little information on w as possible, namely the adversary can exclude at most one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-05 Ivan Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

One-time-pad (OTP) encryption simply cannot be cracked, even by a quantum computer. The need of sharing in a secure way supplies of symmetric random keys turned the method almost obsolete as a standing-alone method for fast and large volume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Geraldo A. Barbosa , Jeroen van de Graaf

Quantum key agreement enables remote participants to fairly establish a secure shared key based on their private inputs. In the circular-type multiparty quantum key agreement mode, two or more malicious participants can collude together to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Hussein Abulkasim , Atefeh Mashatan , Shohini Ghose

Quantum Key Exchange (QKE, also known as Quantum Key Distribution or QKD) allows communicating parties to securely establish cryptographic keys. It is a well-established fact that all QKE protocols require that the parties have access to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 Kenneth G. Paterson , Fred Piper , Ruediger Schack