Public-key cryptosystems for quantum messages are considered from two aspects:public-key encryption and public-key authentication.Firstly,we propose a general construction of quantum public-key encryption scheme,and t...Public-key cryptosystems for quantum messages are considered from two aspects:public-key encryption and public-key authentication.Firstly,we propose a general construction of quantum public-key encryption scheme,and then construct an informationtheoretic secure instance.Then,we propose a quantum public-key authentication scheme,which can protect the integrity of quantum messages.This scheme can both encrypt and authenticate quantum messages.It is information-theoretic secure with regard to encryption,and the success probability of tampering decreases exponentially with the security parameter with regard to authentication.Compared with classical public-key cryptosystems,one private-key in our schemes corresponds to an exponential number of public-keys,and every quantum public-key used by the sender is an unknown quantum state to the sender.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61173157)Strategy Pilot Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. Sub-project XD06010702)IIE’s Cryptography Research Project
文摘Public-key cryptosystems for quantum messages are considered from two aspects:public-key encryption and public-key authentication.Firstly,we propose a general construction of quantum public-key encryption scheme,and then construct an informationtheoretic secure instance.Then,we propose a quantum public-key authentication scheme,which can protect the integrity of quantum messages.This scheme can both encrypt and authenticate quantum messages.It is information-theoretic secure with regard to encryption,and the success probability of tampering decreases exponentially with the security parameter with regard to authentication.Compared with classical public-key cryptosystems,one private-key in our schemes corresponds to an exponential number of public-keys,and every quantum public-key used by the sender is an unknown quantum state to the sender.
