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New design of NTRU key using QKD variants

Saba Alaa Abdulwahhab, Qasim Mohammed Hussien, Imad Fakhri Taha Alshaikhli

Published Jan 1, 2024• 2 citations

Abstract

As life developed, cryptography became crucial.As its utility is not limited to changing the structure of information and making it difficult to interpret (even if it reaches unauthorized individuals), it proves that the information is real from its source and has not been modified during the transmitting or saving process.In this research modifying the NTRU (Number Theory Research Unit) cryptosystem by employing QKD (quantum key distribution) to change the mathematical structure with a physical structure for the public as well as text encryption and decryption.As a result, to obtain higher security to detect EAV and automatically change the key if EAV detects and intercepts the data when the transmutation between ALICE and BOB is quantummechanically approved, the laws of quantum mechanics can be used to make cryptographic protocols that are always safe. METHODIn this section presented the basic algorithms QKD and NTRU which will be used primarily in our scheme, and then attempted to demonstrate in both algorithms, finally displaying and approving a new scheme:

DOI: 10.1063/5.0194518

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