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Measurement-device-independent mutual quantum entity authentication

Quantum Information Processing volume 20, Article number: 152 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Quantum entity authentication (QEA) based on security guaranteed by the laws of physics is the first and most important step for secure communication under the threat of a quantum adversary. QEA theoretically provides unconditional security; however, there is a threat of quantum hacking owing to imperfection of measurement devices in the actual implementation. The proposed measurement-device-independent (MDI) mutual quantum entity authentication (MQEA) scheme guarantees its security under any quantum attacks on measuring devices that have been reported. Using the MDI architecture in our scheme, the third party can only know the correlation of the transmitted qubits through the Bell state measurement, and it cannot obtain the secret key information. In order to confirm the security of the proposed scheme, we present a security analysis of secret key information that is pre-shared among legitimate users, and we analyze Eve’s impersonation attack. Furthermore, we compare the MDI MQEA with other existing QEA schemes

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2019R1A2C2006381, 2019M3E4A107866011, 2019M3E4A1079777); the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) (2E29580); and Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (2020-0-00947, 2020-0-00972).

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  1. Ji-Woong Choi and Min-Sung Kang have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Center for Quantum Information, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, 02792, Republic of Korea

    Ji-Woong Choi, Min-Sung Kang, Chang Hoon Park & Sang-Wook Han

  2. Department of Physics, Korea University, Sejong, 339-700, Republic of Korea

    Ji-Woong Choi & Hyung-Jin Yang

  3. Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), Government Complex Daejeon Building 4, 189, Cheongsa-ro, Seogu, Daejeon, 35208, Republic of Korea

    Min-Sung Kang

  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, 16499, South Korea

    Chang Hoon Park

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Choi, JW., Kang, MS., Park, C.H. et al. Measurement-device-independent mutual quantum entity authentication. Quantum Inf Process 20, 152 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03093-1

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Keywords

  • Quantum entity authentication
  • Quantum hacking
  • Measurement-device-independent
  • Impersonation attack