Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication
Abstract
Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication ("QC") includes stages for enrollment and identification. For example, a user enrolls for multi-factor authentication that uses QC with a trusted authority. The trusted authority transmits device factor information associated with a user device (such as a hash function) and user factor information associated with the user (such as an encrypted version of a user password). The user device receives and stores the device factor information and user factor information. For multi-factor authentication that uses QC, the user device retrieves its stored device factor information and user factor information, then transmits the user factor information to the trusted authority, which also retrieves its stored device factor information. The user device and trusted authority use the device factor information and user factor information (more specifically, information such as a user password that is the basis of the user factor information) in multi-factor authentication that uses QC.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1419765
- Patent Number(s):
- 9887976
- Application Number:
- 14/424,295
- Assignee:
- Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2018 Feb 06
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
Citation Formats
Hughes, Richard John, Peterson, Charles Glen, Thrasher, James T., Nordholt, Jane E., Yard, Jon T., Newell, Raymond Thorson, and Somma, Rolando D. Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication. United States: N. p., 2018.
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Hughes, Richard John, Peterson, Charles Glen, Thrasher, James T., Nordholt, Jane E., Yard, Jon T., Newell, Raymond Thorson, & Somma, Rolando D. Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication. United States.
Hughes, Richard John, Peterson, Charles Glen, Thrasher, James T., Nordholt, Jane E., Yard, Jon T., Newell, Raymond Thorson, and Somma, Rolando D. Tue .
"Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1419765.
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title = {Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication},
author = {Hughes, Richard John and Peterson, Charles Glen and Thrasher, James T. and Nordholt, Jane E. and Yard, Jon T. and Newell, Raymond Thorson and Somma, Rolando D.},
abstractNote = {Multi-factor authentication using quantum communication ("QC") includes stages for enrollment and identification. For example, a user enrolls for multi-factor authentication that uses QC with a trusted authority. The trusted authority transmits device factor information associated with a user device (such as a hash function) and user factor information associated with the user (such as an encrypted version of a user password). The user device receives and stores the device factor information and user factor information. For multi-factor authentication that uses QC, the user device retrieves its stored device factor information and user factor information, then transmits the user factor information to the trusted authority, which also retrieves its stored device factor information. The user device and trusted authority use the device factor information and user factor information (more specifically, information such as a user password that is the basis of the user factor information) in multi-factor authentication that uses QC.},
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