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
- Available format(s)
- 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
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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}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/454} }