Unconditionally-secure and reusable public-key authentication
Quantum Physics
2011-08-16 v1
Abstract
We present a quantum-public-key identification protocol and show that it is secure against a computationally-unbounded adversary. This demonstrates for the first time that unconditionally-secure and reusable public-key authentication is possible in principle with (pure-state) public keys.
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@article{arxiv.1108.2887,
title = {Unconditionally-secure and reusable public-key authentication},
author = {Lawrence M. Ioannou and Michele Mosca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2887},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
to appear in Proceedings of the 6th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2011)