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We introduce a constructive method to calculate the achievable secret key rate for a generic class of quantum key distribution protocols, when only a finite number n of signals is given. Our approach is applicable to all scenarios in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Meyer , Hermann Kampermann , Matthias Kleinmann , Dagmar Bruss

Recently, an image block encryption algorithm was proposed based on some well-known chaotic maps. The authors claim that the encryption algorithm achieves enough security level and high encryption speed at the same time. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yunling Ma , Chengqing Li , Bo Ou

Methods of quantum mechanics promise information-theoretic security for various protocols in cryptography. However, impossibility of some cryptographic applications such as standard bit commitment, oblivious transfer, multiparty secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Muhammad Nadeem

General cryptographic schemes are presented where keys can be one-time or ephemeral. Processes for key exchange are derived. Public key cryptographic schemes based on the new systems are easily established. Authentication and signature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ted Hurley

This paper proposed the application of post-encryption-compression (PEC) to strengthen the secrecy in the case of distributed encryption where the encryption keys are correlated to each other. We derive the universal code construction for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Bagus Santoso , Yasutada Oohama

We propose a public key encryption cryptosystem based on solutions of linear equation systems with predefinition of input parameters through shared secret computation for factorizable substitutions. The existence of multiple equivalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Gennady Khalimov , Yevgen Kotukh

Quantum key distribution is a cryptographic primitive for the distribution of symmetric encryption keys between two parties that possess a pre-shared secret. Since the pre-shared secret is a requirement, quantum key distribution may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Alexander Ling , Christoph Wildfeuer , Valerio Scarani

In this paper, a new image encryption scheme using a secret key of 144-bits is proposed. In the substitution process of the scheme, image is divided into blocks and subsequently into color components. Each color component is modified by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Narendra K Pareek

In this note, we consider the setting of uncloneable encryption satisfying uncloneable indistinguishability, a form of symmetric key encryption that prevents the cloning of ciphertexts in a very strong sense. Our goal is to minimize the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 James Bartusek , Eli Goldin

We present a new scheme for quantum homomorphic encryption which is compact and allows for efficient evaluation of arbitrary polynomial-sized quantum circuits. Building on the framework of Broadbent and Jeffery and recent results in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Yfke Dulek , Christian Schaffner , Florian Speelman

The classification of quantum symmetric-key encryption protocol is presented. According to five elements of a quantum symmetric-key encryption protocol: plaintext, ciphertext, key, encryption algorithm and decryption algorithm, there are 32…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Chong Xiang , Li Yang , Yong Peng , Dongqing Chen

An innovative strategy to enhance the security of symmetric substitution ciphers is presented, through the implementation of a randomized key matrix suitable for various file formats, including but not limited to binary and text files.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shubham Gandhi , Om Khare , Mihika Dravid , Mihika Sanghvi , Sunil Mane , Aadesh Gajaralwar , Saloni Gandhi

Sometimes it is possible to embed an algebraic trapdoor into a block cipher. Building on previous research, in this paper we investigate an especially dangerous algebraic structure, which is called a hidden sum and which is related to some…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Carlo Brunetta , Marco Calderini , Massimiliano Sala

This document describes the symmetric encryption algorithm called Puzzle. It is free and open. The objective of this paper is to get an opinion about its security from the cryptology community. It is separated in two parts, a technical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Gregory Alvarez , Charles Berenguer

We propose a multi-bit leveled fully homomorphic encryption scheme using multivariate polynomial evaluations. The security of the scheme depends on the hardness of the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem. For homomorphic multiplication, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Uddipana Dowerah , Srinivasan Krishnaswamy

This paper investigates compression of data encrypted with block ciphers, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is shown that such data can be feasibly compressed without knowledge of the secret key. Block ciphers operating in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Demijan Klinc , Carmit Hazay , Ashish Jagmohan , Hugo Krawczyk , Tal Rabin

We describe an encrypted communication principle that can form a perfectly secure link between two parties without electronically saving either of their keys. Instead, cryptographic key bits are kept safe within the unique mesoscopic…

Performing smart computations in a context of cloud computing and big data is highly appreciated today. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a smart category of encryption schemes that allows working with the data in its encrypted form. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Ahmed El-Yahyaoui , Mohamed Dafir Ech-Chrif El Kettani

Using well-known mathematical problems for encryption is a widely used technique because they are computationally hard and provide security against potential attacks on the encryption method. The subset sum problem (SSP) can be defined as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yair Zadok , Nadav Voloch , Noa Voloch-Bloch , Maor Meir Hajaj

This article proposes a comprehensive approach to implementing encryption schemes based on the automorphism group of the Hermitian function field. We utilize a three-parameter group with logarithmic representations outside the group's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Gennady Khalimov , Yevgen Kotukh