Title :
Quantum security using property of a quantum wave function
Author :
Elmannai, Wafa ; Elleithy, Khaled ; Pande, Vijae ; Geddeda, Elham
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Abstract :
Security over communication is totally essential especially for critical applications such as Military, Education and Financial applications. Unfortunately, many security mechanisms can be broken with new developments in classical computers. Quantum computers are capable of performing high speed simultaneous computations rather than sequentially as the case in classical computers do. In order to break a symmetric encryption algorithm, the attacker needs to find all the potential key combinations to get the right one. In this paper, we are introducing a secure protocol that considers the Qubit as a wave function. The beauty of the work is that the proposed protocol is based on time stamp that can only be broken by the correct set of time value, wave function, Qubit position, and other attributes such as: velocity, and phase of the Qubit. Moreover, using quantum tunneling makes the proposed protocol stronger by providing a very strong secure password protection mechanism using just one Qubit.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; quantum computing; critical applications; education applications; financial applications; high speed simultaneous computations; military applications; quantum computers; quantum security; quantum tunneling; quantum wave function; qubit; secure password protection mechanism; secure protocol; symmetric encryption algorithm; Computer science; Computers; Educational institutions; Protocols; Quantum computing; Security; Wave functions; Quantum Security; Quantum Wave Function; Qubit position; quantum tunneling;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2014 IEEE Long Island
Conference_Location :
Farmingdale, NY
DOI :
10.1109/LISAT.2014.6845217