AES and Quantum Cryptography

Xavier Bonnetain, María Naya‐Plasencia, André Schrottenloher

Sandeep Kumar Rao, Dindayal Mahto, Dilip Kumar Yadav

Privacy of information can be maintained using two cryptographic techniques i.e. symmetric key cryptography and asymmetric key cryptography. For securing data using symmetric key cryptography, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is one of the trusted cryptographic algorithms. AES is a block cipher based symmetric key cryptographic algorithm which can resist conventional computers as well as quantum computers. In recent years, many researches have been done that exploit the property of quantum mechanics to solve mathematical problems that are ever difficult for conventional computers. Many of the cryptographic algorithms can be broken if large scale quantum computers are ever made. This paper depicts the proof of AES-256 using Grover’s algorithm which can resist quantum. Keywords: AES,RSA, ECC, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Quantum bit commitment, Quantum Cryptography.

Salabh Rai, Ayush Kumar Upadhyay, Divyank Sharma +3 more

In Our daily life we are getting very much dependent on Internet or Virtual Reality. They are nothing but an illusion of a Cyberspace. It has effect on our every aspect of life, like Education, Sports, and Health etc. We are using the term Cryptography which is the science of using mathematics to encrypt and decrypt data. We had used various Encryption standards in back days namely, DES, AES, RSA, Elliptical AES etc. But nowadays we are using Quantum Cryptography for this. It is nothing but use of Physics (mainly Quantum Physics) for Encrypting the data. In this Research paper we will mainly focus on the new approaches that come in the path of Quantum Cryptography. We will also view some interaction of Quantum Cryptography in future Internet services. Quantum computing is yet to be explored but still the explored part has the capabilities to counter the “alien” hacking protocols if tested over any System. Older System were using protocols like RSA, AES, DES even some of them are more capable than our need, but the use of QC will not only secure the systems but there are major chances that eavesdropper got caught while eavesdropping. Also QC is a pathway to secure communication. This paper includes the review of older state of Quantum Cryptography which will give us information about QKD algorithms and its protocol and we will also overview on its risk and security features. We will also provide a glimpse of current various works going in various Educational Institutions.

Jean-Louis Basdevant, Jean Dalibard

Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard A, ARTUR K. EKERT

Abhishek Parakh

Quantum cryptography provides perfect secrecy if the key exchanged is used for one-time-pad encryption. However, this requires very long keys which are not practical in most scenarios. Further, the key exchange bit-rate for quantum key distribution is very low. Consequently, often quantum key distribution algorithms only exchange (128, 192 or 256 bit) AES keys and then AES is used for data encryption. While Grover's algorithm will force us to only use AES- 256 and does not pose a catastrophic failure to AES, AES does not provide provable security. In this paper, we discuss methods that provide provable security but at the same time the key lengths may be controlled to practical levels. Difficulty of breaking the cipher is directly proportional to the key length and depends on the specific algorithm employed. The key idea is that key lengths can be tweaked such that an acceptable and provable level of security is achieved and therefore the cipher is not reliant on any assumptions for security. The paper will discuss different ways of achieving the above goal.