Design and analysis of quantum computing based key distribution algorithms

Abstract

We are living in the new era of computing where internet of things is increasing the connectivity of machine to machine or machine to environment which leads to the massive amount of data over the internet. Hence, securing the data is one of the most important areas of interest these days. The process of cryptography is used to secure the transmission of data from being stolen or intercepted by third party. Up till now classical cryptography techniques based on digital computers were enough to provide integrity, confidentiality and authenticity to the transmitted data but the processing power of transistors used in digital computers is growing fast with the exponential decrease in the transistor size. As stated in Moore’s law that the size of transistor will become too small in the coming years that the moving electrons in the transistor will make it very hot and it will not function properly. This will lead to the era of digital computers to come to an end and there will be need of quantum computers and hence quantum cryptography algorithms for securing data. As quantum cryptography is device specific and can only be done by using quantum computers. These quantum computers are large, expensive and complex to use and we do not have access to quantum computers. Considering these limitations, we need some simulation and emulation models that can check the working of key distribution algorithms. The main focus of the proposed research work is to design a resource efficient standalone system that will help to test the performance of quantum cryptography protocols and benefits the future researchers to implement already tested quantum key distribution protocols for making the IoT (Internet of Things) communication reliable and secure.