From Contemporary to Post-Quantum Cryptography: System Models, Threats, and Proposed Solutions
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In the presence of quantum computing and quantum key distribution (QKD), it is believed that the future of cryptography will take a sharp turn into a new direction. We propose one possible direction in this paper. A new abstract model is proposed. A brief review on the traditional secret-key cryptosystem and discussion on the credibility of the secure channel, as well as on theoretical and practical security, is given. After that, impacts from quantum computation are discussed, followed by presentation of interesting ideas from quantum key distribution (QKD) and wireless physical secret-key generation. Finally, possible integrated solutions are proposed, with some insight from the secure network coding technique.
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