A SIMPLE POST QUANTUM SCHEME FOR HIGHER KEY RATE MULTIPARTY QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION

A SIMPLE POST QUANTUM SCHEME FOR HIGHER KEY RATE MULTIPARTY QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION

Abudhahir Buhari1, Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain1, Shamala K. Subramaniam1, Hisham Zainuddin2 and Suhairi Saharudin3

1FSKTM, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

2INSPEM, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

3MIMOS, Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

We propose a multi-party quantum key distribution protocol which enables all the receivers can convert their respective private shared key into common secret key without use of entanglement. The main component of our protocol is a simple post quantum scheme for achieving the higher secret key rate. Efficiency of the extracted key rate is almost 100%. We assume that sender established the pre-shared private secret keys and a common secret number with the receivers. Our proposed scheme sends n strings of number to n receivers in the public channel to convert their respective shared secret key into common secret key in the presence of Eve. We also analyze the complexity of attack by the adversary to guess the secret key.

KEYWORDS

Network security, quantum cryptography, secret key distribution, multi-party QKD 

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