Quantum cloning attacks against PUF-based quantum authentication systems

DOI10.1007/S11128-016-1316-XzbMATH Open1348.81216arXiv1605.00786OpenAlexW2346773682MaRDI QIDQ331906FDOQ331906

Authors: Yao Yao, Ming Gao, Mo Li, Jian Zhang 

Publication date: 27 October 2016

Published in: Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: With the advent of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), PUF-based quantum authentication systems (QAS) have been proposed for security purposes and recently proof-of-principle experiment has been demonstrated. As a further step towards completing the security analysis, we investigate quantum cloning attacks against PUF-based quantum authentication systems and prove that quantum cloning attacks outperform the so-called challenge-estimation attacks. We present the analytical expression of the false accept probability by use of the corresponding optimal quantum cloning machines and extend the previous results in the literature. In light of these findings, an explicit comparison is made between PUF-based quantum authentication systems and quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols in the context of cloning attacks. Moreover, from an experimental perspective, a trade-off between the average photon number and the detection efficiency is discussed in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00786

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum key distributionquantum authenticationphysical unclonable functionsquantum cloning attacks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cryptography (94A60) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94)

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