Triad National Security, LLC

Christopher C Wipf

Jane Elizabeth Nordholt

Richard John Hughes

Nicholas Dallmann

Charles Glen Peterson

Raymond Thorson Newell

Kevin Peter McCabe

Kush T Tyagi

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.

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

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Christopher C Wipf