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International Conference on Quantum, Nano and Micro Technologies (ICQNM)

SSL/TLS with Quantum Cryptography

Mario Pivk, Christian Kollmitzer, Stefan Raß

Published Feb 1, 2009• 8 citations
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Abstract

The current standard to exchange a secret key for ensuring secure data transmission within the SSL/TLS protocol is based on Public-Key encryption. This method is only secure as long as the computation power of a potential attacker is limited. So far, the only way to make an unconditional secure key exchange, is to use quantum key distribution (QKD). With the latest figures of sifting key rates provided by NIST, we show which authentic theoretical final key rates are possible. Furthermore we present a modified SSL/TLS protocol, which uses quantum key distribution, in different encryption variants.

DOI
10.1109/icqnm.2009.29

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SSL/TLS is the protocol that is used for the vast majority of secure transactions over the Internet. However, this protocol needs to be extended in order to create a promising platform for the integration of quantum cryptography (QC) into the Internet infrastructure. This paper presents a novel extension of SSL/TLS that significantly facilitates such type of integration. This extended version of SSL/TLS is called QSSL (Quantum SSL). During the development of QSSL, a concentration has been made on the creation of a simple, efficient, general, and flexible architecture that enables the deployment of practical quantum cryptographic-based security applications. Indeed, QSSL efficiently supports unconditionally secure encryption (one-time pad) and/or unconditionally secure authentication (based on universal hashing). A simplified version of QSSL based on BB84 (Bennett-Brassard 84) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol has been implemented and experimentally tested. This has enabled us to experimentally assess our protocol design based on software simulation of the quantum channel events used for QKD.
After a good period of time with experimentation in quantum cryptography (QC) in labs and somewhat for less extent with experience in deploying stand-alone point-to-point commercial QC products, it is definitely prudent now to explore the great advantages of integrating QC with the already-existing Internet security infrastructure. SSL/TLS is a protocol that is used for a vast majority of secure transactions over the Internet. However, this protocol needs to be extended in order to create a promising platform for the integration of QC into the Internet infrastructure. This paper presents a novel extension of SSL/TLS that significantly facilitates such type of integration. This extended version of SSL/TLS is called QSSL (Quantum SSL). During the development of QSSL, a concentration has been made on the creation of a simple, efficient, general, and flexible architecture that enables the deployment of practical quantum cryptographic-based security applications. Indeed, QSSL efficiently supports unconditionally secure encryption (one-time pad) and/or unconditionally secure authentication (based on universal hashing). A simplified version of QSSL based on BB84 (Bennett–Brassard 84) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol has been implemented and experimentally tested. This has enabled to experimentally assess the proposed protocol design based on software simulation of the quantum channel events used for QKD.
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