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Authentication is a well-studied area of classical cryptography: a sender S and a receiver R sharing a classical private key want to exchange a classical message with the guarantee that the message has not been modified by any third party…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Howard Barnum , Claude Crepeau , Daniel Gottesman , Adam Smith , Alain Tapp

In conventional cryptography, information-theoretically secure message authentication can be achieved by means of universal hash functions, and requires that the two legitimate users share a random secret key, which is twice as long as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Georgios M. Nikolopoulos , Marc Fischlin

Quantum information, computation and communication, will have a great impact on our world. One important subfield will be quantum networking and the quantum Internet. The purpose of a quantum Internet is to enable applications that are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Antonio Abelem , Don Towsley , Gayane Vardoyan

This work shows how a secure Internet for users A and B can be implemented through a fast key distribution system that uses physical noise to encrypt information transmitted in deterministic form. Starting from a shared secret random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geraldo A. Barbosa

Secure quantum conferencing refers to a protocol where a number of trusted users generate exactly the same secret key to confidentially broadcast private messages. By a modification of the techniques first introduced in [Pirandola,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Stefano Pirandola

Cryptography literally means "The art & science of secret writing & sending a message between two parties in such a way that its contents cannot be understood by someone other than the intended recipient". and Quantum word is related with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Aditya Goel

Data that is transient over an unsecured wireless network is always susceptible to being intercepted by anyone within the range of the wireless signal. Hence providing secure communication to keep the user information and devices safe when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Priyanka Bhatia , Ronak Sumbaly

The global interest in quantum networks stems from the security guaranteed by the laws of physics. Deploying quantum networks means facing the challenges of scaling up the physical hardware and, more importantly, of scaling up all other…

Quantum digital signatures (QDS) exploit quantum laws to guarantee non-repudiation, unforgeability and transferability of messages with information-theoretic security. Current QDS protocols face two major restrictions, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Yu-Shuo Lu , Xiao-Yu Cao , Chen-Xun Weng , Jie Gu , Yuan-Mei Xie , Min-Gang Zhou , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Quantum communication is an important application that derives from the burgeoning field of quantum information and quantum computation. Focusing on secure communication, quantum cryptography has two major directions of development, namely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Junxu Li , Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

Image security for information has become increasingly critical as internet become more prevalent due to hacking and unauthorized access. To ensure the security of confidential image data, image encryption using visual cryptography plays a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Dipak K. Rabari , Yogesh K. Meghrajani , Laxmi S. Desai

Quantum information protocols offer significant advantages in properties such as security, anonymity, and privacy for communication and computing tasks. An application where guaranteeing the highest possible security and privacy is critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Nicolas Laurent-Puig , Matilde Baroni , Federico Centrone , Eleni Diamanti

Signing quantum messages has long been considered impossible even under computational assumptions. In this work, we challenge this notion and provide three innovative approaches to sign quantum messages that are the first to ensure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

Quantum key distribution (QKD) refers to specific quantum strategies which permit the secure distribution of a secret key between two parties that wish to communicate secretly. Quantum cryptography has proven unconditionally secure in ideal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-14 C. Rodó , O. Romero-Isart , K. Eckert , A. Sanpera

Public-key cryptosystems for quantum messages are considered from two aspects: public-key encryption and public-key authentication. Firstly, we propose a general construction of quantum public-key encryption scheme, and then construct an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 Min Liang , Li Yang

Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that ensures transparency, security, and immutability through cryptographic techniques. However, advancements in quantum computing threaten the security of classical cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Nicholas J. C. Papadopoulos

A longstanding goal in quantum information science is to demonstrate quantum computations that cannot be feasibly reproduced on a classical computer. Such demonstrations mark major milestones: they showcase fine control over quantum systems…

A number of questions associated with practical implementations of quantum cryptography systems having to do with unconditional secrecy, computational loads and effective secrecy rates in the presence of perfect and imperfect sources are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilbert , M. Hamrick

Reliable and efficient functioning of a quantum network depends on identifying and mitigating security risks originating from within and outside the network. We aim to construct a comprehensive framework for developing and assessing secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Salini Karuvade , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum communication networks are connected by various devices to achieve communication or distributed computing for users in remote locations. In order to solve the problem of generating temporary session key for secure communication in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Li-Zhen Gao , Xin Zhang , Song Lin , Ning Wang , Gong-De Guo