Arbitrated Quantum Signature Protocol Research Articles

Arbitrated quantum signature protocol with boson sampling-based random unitary encryption

For signing quantum messages, the arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) has been widely investigated to date. However, most of the existing AQS protocols are susceptible to different aspects of disavowal and forgery attacks due to the use of quantum one time pad (QOTP) encryption featuring the encryption manner with qubit by qubit and the commutative property of Pauli operations. We develop an AQS protocol with boson sampling-based random unitary encryption. The unique encryption is used to encrypt the message copy (ciphertext) to produce the signature, which can circumvent the drawbacks of the QOTP encryption and stand against the signer Alice’s disavowal and the verifier Bob’s forgery attacks including existential forgery under known message attacks. The employment of a random array via the public board can prevent Bob’s repudiation attacks on the receipt and the integrality of the signature. The quantum walk-based teleportation is applied to teleport the message copy from Alice to Bob, which can avoid preparing the essential entanglement resource beforehand. Security analyses and discussions show that our AQS protocol is with impossibility of disavowal from Alice and Bob and impossibility of forgery from anyone.

An arbitrated quantum signature protocol using rotation and permutation operators

The existing improved arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) protocols still have some security problems. First, the security of one AQS protocol is analysed, including existential forgery attack and the signer’s disavowal attack. To resist these attacks, a novel AQS protocol using rotation and permutation operators is proposed. And the analysis shows that the protocol can resist all the known forgery attacks and the signer’s disavowal attacks.

Arbitrated Quantum Signature Protocol with Asymmetric Key Based on Qubit Block Encryption

Here, The new arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) protocol assisted by asymmetric key based on qubit block encryption algorithm is given. Interestingly, our protocol with the asymmetric key can be easily extended to multi-party verification. Unlike all previous quantum works on arbitrated quantum signature, the encryption algorithm of the pre-sented protocol is qubit block encryption. Since, the proposed protocol has a better performance in resisting existential forgery attack. In addi-tion, with the help of the arbitrator, it can be proved that our protocol is secure.

The Security Problems in Some Novel Arbitrated Quantum Signature Protocols

With the development of quantum signature, two improved arbitrated quantum signature(AQS) protocols have been presented with different quantum encryptions. In this paper, some security loopholes during the two AQS protocols are proposed. In the enhanced arbitrated quantum signature(EAQS) protocol, though the signer is not able to deny his signature, the receiver can still forge some valid signatures. In the chaos-based arbitrated quantum signature(CAQS) protocol, the receiver can forge a valid signature without being caught, and the signer can also deny her signature after the signing phase. Finally, some potential improved ideas are discussed.

An improved arbitrated quantum signature protocol based on the key-controlled chained CNOT encryption

In this paper, a new quantum encryption based on the key-controlled chained CNOT operations, which is named KCCC encryption, is proposed. With the KCCC encryption, an improved arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) protocol is presented. Compared with the existing protocols, our protocol can effectively prevent forgery attacks and disavowal attacks. Moreover, only single state is required in the protocol. We hope it is helpful to further research in the design of AQS protocols in future.

An arbitrated quantum signature protocol based on the chained CNOT operations encryption

At present, the encryption scheme used by most arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) protocols is quantum one-time pad (QOTP) which encrypts data qubit by qubit. Though QOTP can achieve high security for data encryption, it is not suitable for AQS. There are many attacks on AQS using QOTP. In this paper, we propose an AQS protocol based on another encryption scheme called the chained CNOT operations, which encrypts quantum message ensemble. Our protocol preserves all merits in the similar AQS schemes and has better security. Security analysis shows that our protocol cannot be forged and disavowed under the existing attacks.

Security of the arbitrated quantum signature protocols revisited

Recently, much attention has been paid to the study of arbitrated quantum signature (AQS). Among these studies, the cryptanalysis of some AQS protocols and a series of improved ideas have been proposed. Compared with the previous analysis, we present a security criterion, which can judge whether an AQS protocol is able to prevent the receiver (i.e. one participant in the signature protocol) from forging a legal signature. According to our results, it can be seen that most AQS protocols which are based on the Zeng and Keitel (ZK) model are susceptible to a forgery attack. Furthermore, we present an improved idea of the ZK protocol. Finally, some supplement discussions and several interesting topics are provided.

Security Weaknesses in Arbitrated Quantum Signature Protocols

Arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) is a cryptographic scenario in which the sender (signer), Alice, generates the signature of a message and then a receiver (verifier), Bob, can verify the signature with the help of a trusted arbitrator, Trent. In this paper, we point out there exist some security weaknesses in two AQS protocols. Our analysis shows Alice can successfully disavow any of her signatures by a simple attack in the first protocol. Furthermore, we study the security weaknesses of the second protocol from the aspects of forgery and disavowal. Some potential improvements of this kind of protocols are given. We also design a new method to authenticate a signature or a message, which makes AQS protocols immune to Alice’s disavowal attack and Bob’s forgery attack effectively.

Arbitrated Quantum Signature protocol using EPR pairs

Arbitrated signature provides that the signatory signs a message with his private key by quantum cryptography, while the signature receiver verifies the signature with the arbitrator’s assistance. In this work, security analysis was given to the arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) and results showed that the receiver Bob and the attacker can forge the signature. Then this paper gives a new quantum one-time pads encryption method, which is suit for the quantum signature. At last, a new AQS protocol using Einstein-Podoisky-Rosen (EPR) pairs is proposed. By using of quantum key distribution (QKD) and new quantum one-time pads, the new scheme can resist Shor’s attack. The new scheme has following advantages: (1) The scheme reduces the complexity of implementation and provides a higher efficiency in transmission; (2) Compares with some AQS schemes, the scheme can avoid being disavowed by the receiver; (3) Compares with other AQS schemes, the scheme also guarantees the arbitrator cannot forge the signature and it also ensure the receiver and other attacker cannot forge the signature.

Cryptanalysis of the arbitrated quantum signature protocols

As a new model for signing quantum messages, arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) has recently received a lot of attention. In this paper we study the cryptanalysis of previous AQS protocols from the aspects of forgery and disavowal. We show that in these protocols the receiver, Bob, can realize existential forgery of the sender's signature under known message attack. Bob can even achieve universal forgery when the protocols are used to sign a classical message. Furthermore, the sender, Alice, can successfully disavow any of her signatures by simple attack. The attack strategies are described in detail and some discussions about the potential improvements of the protocols are given. Finally we also present several interesting topics on AQS protocols that can be studied in future.

Arbitrated quantum signature with an untrusted arbitrator

In an arbitrated signature scheme, all communications involve a so called arbitrator who has access to the contents of the messages. The security of most arbitrated signature schemes depends heavily on the trustworthiness of the arbitrators. In this paper we show how to construct an arbitrated quantum signature protocol of classical messages with an untrusted arbitrator. Its security is analyzed and it is proved to be secure even if the arbitrator is compromised. In addition, the proposed protocol does not require a direct quantum link between any two communicating users, which is an appealing advantage in the implementation of a practical quantum distributed communication network.