Streaming authentication and multi-level security for communications networks using quantum cryptography

Hughes, Richard John; Nordholt, Jane Elizabeth; Peterson, Charles Glen; Tyagi, Kush T.; Wipf, Christopher C.; Newell, Raymond Thorson; McCabe, Kevin P.; Dallmann, Nicholas

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Title: Streaming authentication and multi-level security for communications networks using quantum cryptography

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Message authenticators for quantum-secured communications facilitate low-latency authentication with assurances of security. Low-latency message authenticators are especially valuable in infrastructure systems where security and latency constraints are difficult to satisfy with conventional non-quantum cryptography. For example, a message transmitter receives a message and derives an authentication tag for the message based at least in part on an authenticator that uses one or more quantum keys. The message transmitter outputs the message and its authentication tag. A message receiver receives a message and authentication tag for the message. The message receiver derives a comparison tag for the message based at least in part on an authenticator that uses one or more quantum keys. The message receiver checks whether the message is authentic based on a comparison of the authentication tag and the comparison tag. In example implementations, the authenticator uses stream-wise cyclic redundancy code operations.

Inventors:: Hughes, Richard John; Nordholt, Jane Elizabeth; Peterson, Charles Glen; Tyagi, Kush T.; Wipf, Christopher C.; Newell, Raymond Thorson; McCabe, Kevin P.; Dallmann, Nicholas

Issue Date:: 2020-02-25

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1632595

Patent Number(s):: 10574461

Application Number:: 15/026,024

Assignee:: Triad National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y04 - INFORMATION OR COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES HAVING AN IMPACT ON OTHER TECHNOLOGY AREAS Y04S - SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS

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H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
H04L63/08 - {for supporting authentication of entities communicating through a packet data network
H04L9/0852 - {Quantum cryptography
H04L9/3226 - {using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y04 - INFORMATION OR COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES HAVING AN IMPACT ON OTHER TECHNOLOGY AREAS Y04S - SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS
Y04S40/20 - Information technology specific aspects

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DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 09/30/2014

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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                    Hughes, Richard John, Nordholt, Jane Elizabeth, Peterson, Charles Glen, Tyagi, Kush T., Wipf, Christopher C., Newell, Raymond Thorson, McCabe, Kevin P., and Dallmann, Nicholas. Streaming authentication and multi-level security for communications networks using quantum cryptography.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Hughes, Richard John, Nordholt, Jane Elizabeth, Peterson, Charles Glen, Tyagi, Kush T., Wipf, Christopher C., Newell, Raymond Thorson, McCabe, Kevin P., & Dallmann, Nicholas. Streaming authentication and multi-level security for communications networks using quantum cryptography.  United States.

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                    Hughes, Richard John, Nordholt, Jane Elizabeth, Peterson, Charles Glen, Tyagi, Kush T., Wipf, Christopher C., Newell, Raymond Thorson, McCabe, Kevin P., and Dallmann, Nicholas. Tue .  
        "Streaming authentication and multi-level security for communications networks using quantum cryptography".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1632595.

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  abstractNote = {Message authenticators for quantum-secured communications facilitate low-latency authentication with assurances of security. Low-latency message authenticators are especially valuable in infrastructure systems where security and latency constraints are difficult to satisfy with conventional non-quantum cryptography. For example, a message transmitter receives a message and derives an authentication tag for the message based at least in part on an authenticator that uses one or more quantum keys. The message transmitter outputs the message and its authentication tag. A message receiver receives a message and authentication tag for the message. The message receiver derives a comparison tag for the message based at least in part on an authenticator that uses one or more quantum keys. The message receiver checks whether the message is authentic based on a comparison of the authentication tag and the comparison tag. In example implementations, the authenticator uses stream-wise cyclic redundancy code operations.},

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Title: Streaming authentication and multi-level security for communications networks using quantum cryptography

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Very simple method to find the minimum polynomial of an arbitrary nonzero element of a finite field journal, January 1976

Frame Synchronization Method for QKD Systems patent-application, February 2008

System and Method for Providing Two-Way Communication of Quantum Signals, Timing Signals, and Public Data patent-application, May 2006

Quantum Key Distribution Method and Communication Apparatus patent-application, June 2008

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Fast Construction of Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields journal, May 1994

Device containing cytophilic islands that adhere cells separated by cytophobic regions patent, August 2011

Fixed-point analysis and realization of a blind beamforming algorithm conference, November 1999

Method and System Utilizing Quantum Authentication patent-application, April 2009

Encryption Apparatus, Decryption Apparatus, Key Generation Apparatus, Program, and Method patent-application, December 2005

System and methods for quantum key distribution over WDM links patent, December 2009

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Very simple method to find the minimum polynomial of an arbitrary nonzero element of a finite field
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Frame Synchronization Method for QKD Systems
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System and Method for Providing Two-Way Communication of Quantum Signals, Timing Signals, and Public Data
patent-application, May 2006

Quantum Key Distribution Method and Communication Apparatus
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High-Rate Quantum Key Distribution Scheme Relying on Continuously Phase and Amplitude-Modulated Coherent Light Pulses
patent-application, June 2004

Key generating apparatus, program, and method
patent, August 2010

UNIVERSAL-HASH-FUNCTION-FAMILY CALCULATION UNIT AND SHARED-KEY GENERATION SYSTEM
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Fast Construction of Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields
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Device containing cytophilic islands that adhere cells separated by cytophobic regions
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Fixed-point analysis and realization of a blind beamforming algorithm
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LFSR-based Hashing and Authentication
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