Key Exchange in the Quantum Era: Evaluating a Hybrid System of Public-Key Cryptography and Physical-Layer Security
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Beitragende
Abstract
Today's information society relies on cryptography to achieve security goals such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation for digital communications. Here, public-key cryptosystems play a pivotal role to share encryption keys and create digital signatures. However, quantum computers threaten the security of traditional public-key cryptosystems as they can tame computational problems underlying the schemes, i.e., discrete logarithm and integer factorization. The prospective arrival of capable-enough quantum computers already threatens today's secret communication in terms of their long-term secrecy when stored to be later decrypted. Therefore, researchers strive to develop and deploy alternative schemes.In this work, we evaluate a key exchange protocol based on combining public-key schemes with physical-layer security, anticipating the prospect of quantum attacks: If a powerful quantum attacker cannot immediately obtain a private key, legitimate parties have a window of short-term secrecy to perform a physical-layer jamming key exchange (JKE) to establish a long-term shared secret. Thereby, the protocol constraints the computation time available to the attacker to break the employed public-key cryptography. In this paper, we outline the protocol, discuss its security, and point out challenges to be resolved.
Details
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Titel | 2025 59th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2025 |
| Herausgeber (Verlag) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Seitenumfang | 6 |
| ISBN (elektronisch) | 979-8-3315-1326-9 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2025 |
| Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Publikationsreihe
| Reihe | Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) |
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| ISSN | 2837-0163 |
Konferenz
| Titel | 59th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems |
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| Kurztitel | CISS 2025 |
| Veranstaltungsnummer | 59 |
| Dauer | 19 - 21 März 2025 |
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| Ort | Johns Hopkins University |
| Stadt | Baltimore |
| Land | USA/Vereinigte Staaten |