Multi-party quantum key agreement protocol secure against collusion attacks

Multiparty quantum key agreement protocol secure against collusion attacks

The fairness of a secure multi-party quantum key agreement (MQKA) protocol requires that all involved parties are entirely peer entities and can equally influence the outcome of the protocol to establish a shared key wherein no one can decide the shared key alone. However, it is found that parts of the existing MQKA protocols are sensitive to collusion attacks, i.e., some of the dishonest parti...

Authenticated Multi-Party Key Agreement

We examine multi-party key agreement protocols that provide (i) key authentica-tion, (ii) key connrmation and (iii) forward secrecy. Several minor (repairable) attacks are presented against previous two-party key agreement schemes and a model for key agreement is presented that provably provides the properties listed above. A generalization of the Burmester-Desmedt model (Eurocrypt '94) for mul...

Provably secure and efficient identity-based key agreement protocol for independent PKGs using ECC

Key agreement protocols are essential for secure communications in open and distributed environments. Recently, identity-based key agreement protocols have been increasingly researched because of the simplicity of public key management. The basic idea behind an identity-based cryptosystem is that a public key is the identity (an arbitrary string) of a user, and the corresponding private key is ...

An efficient and secure two-party key agreement protocol based on chaotic maps

Secure communication is a matter of genuine concern that includes means whereby entities can share information without a third party’s interception. Key agreement protocols are one of the common approaches in which two or more parties can agree upon a key, which precludes undesired third parties from forcing a key choice on them. Over the past decade, chaos-based key agreement protocols have be...

Authenticated Key Exchange Secure Against Dictionary Attacks