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Secure Identification and QKD in the Bounded-Quantum-Storage Model

Ivan B. DamgårdContact Information, Serge FehrContact Information, Louis SalvailContact Information and Christian SchaffnerContact Information

(1)  BRICS, FICS, Aarhus University, Denmark
(2)  CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract
We consider the problem of secure identification: user U proves to server S that he knows an agreed (possibly low-entropy) password w, while giving away as little information on w as possible, namely the adversary can exclude at most one possible password for each execution of the scheme. We propose a solution in the bounded-quantum-storage model, where U and S may exchange qubits, and a dishonest party is assumed to have limited quantum memory. No other restriction is posed upon the adversary. An improved version of the proposed identification scheme is also secure against a man-in-the-middle attack, but requires U and S to additionally share a high-entropy key k. However, security is still guaranteed if one party loses k to the attacker but notices the loss. In both versions of the scheme, the honest participants need no quantum memory, and noise and imperfect quantum sources can be tolerated. The schemes compose sequentially, and w and k can securely be re-used. A small modification to the identification scheme results in a quantum-key-distribution (QKD) scheme, secure in the bounded-quantum-storage model, with the same re-usability properties of the keys, and without assuming authenticated channels. This is in sharp contrast to known QKD schemes (with unbounded adversary) without authenticated channels, where authentication keys must be updated, and unsuccessful executions can cause the parties to run out of keys.

Contact Information Ivan B. Damgård
Email: ivan@brics.dk

Contact Information Serge Fehr
Email: fehr@cwi.nl

Contact Information Louis Salvail
Email: salvail@brics.dk

Contact Information Christian Schaffner
Email: c.schaffner@cwi.nl
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  1. Fehr, Serge (2010) Quantum Cryptography. Foundations of Physics
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