An Authentication Protocol for Quantum Enabled Mobile Devices

The quantum communication technology is an evolving
design which connects multiple quantum enabled devices to internet
for secret communication or sensitive information exchange. In
future, the number of these compact quantum enabled devices
will increase immensely making them an integral part of present
communication systems. Therefore, safety and security of such
devices is also a major concern for us. To ensure the customer
sensitive information will not be eavesdropped or deciphered, we
need a strong authentications and encryption mechanism. In this
paper, we propose a mutual authentication scheme between these
smart quantum devices and server based on the secure exchange of
information through quantum channel which gives better solutions
for symmetric key exchange issues. An important part of this
work is to propose a secure mutual authentication protocol over
the quantum channel. We show that our approach offers robust
authentication protocol and further our solution is lightweight,
scalable, cost-effective with optimized computational processing
overheads.

Authors:

• Natarajan Venkatachalam
• Subrahmanya V. R. K. Rao
• Vijay Karthikeyan Dhandapani
• Swaminathan Saravanavel

Keywords:

• Quantum cryptography
• quantum key distribution
• wireless quantum communication
• authentication protocol
• quantum enabled device
• trusted third party.

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