Paper 2012/454

A Probabilistic Quantum Key Transfer Protocol

Abhishek Parakh

Abstract

We propose a protocol to transfer a one-time-pad (in a probabilistic manner) from Alice to Bob, over a public channel. The proposed protocol is unique because Bob merely acts as the receiver of the pad (secret key), i.e. Bob does not need to send any message back to Alice unless he detects eavesdropping. Such a secure transfer of one-time-pad, over public channel, is not possible in classical cryptography and in quantum cryptography all previous protocols require Bob to send almost as many messages back to Alice as she does to Bob, to establish a key.

Metadata
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PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. N/A
Keywords
quantum cryptographysecret key transferprobabilistic protocol
Contact author(s)
aparakh @ unomaha edu
History
2012-08-13: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/454
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/454,
      author = {Abhishek Parakh},
      title = {A Probabilistic Quantum Key Transfer Protocol},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/454},
      year = {2012},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/454}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/454}
}
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