Efficient quantum-based security protocols for information sharing and data protection in 5G networks

El‐Latif, Ahmed A. Abd; Abd-El-Atty, Bassem; Venegas-Andraca, Salvador E.; Mazurczyk, Wojciech

doi:10.1016/j.future.2019.05.053

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“…digital) equivalents, there are two categories of quantum walks: discrete-time quantum walks and continuous-time quantum walks 20 . In this study, we focus on discrete-time quantum walks (or simply QWs), which have shown viability in wide-ranging cryptographic applications 18,19,25,26,28,30,45,[54][55][56][57][58] . QWs have two basic parts: the walker space H p and the coin particle .…”

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“…Nevertheless, like any cryptographic mechanism, if the key parameters of the quantum-inspired quantum walk are disclosed, then anyone can access the probability distribution with appreciable precision. On the other hand, if the parameters are unknown, but a part of the probability distribution is disclosed, then it is very difficult to estimate the key parameters or the recover the probability distribution because our quantum-inspired quantum walk is a one-way mechanism 18,19,26 . Consequently, it is envisioned that the suggested cryptographic applications would offer additional layers of tamper-proof security within the precepts of quantum-inspired quantum walks.…”

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Quantum-inspired cascaded discrete-time quantum walks with induced chaotic dynamics and cryptographic applications

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Designing efficient and secure cryptosystems has been a preoccupation for many scientists and engineers for a long time wherein they use chaotic systems to design new cryptosystems. While one dimensional (1-D) chaotic maps possess powerful properties compared to higher dimension ones, they are vulnerable to various attacks due to their small key space, chaotic discontinuous ranges, and degradation in chaotic dynamical behaviours. Moreover, when simulated on a computer, every such chaotic system produces a periodic cycle. Meanwhile, quantum random walks exhibit the potential for deployment in efficient cryptosystem design, which makes it an excellent solution for this problem. In this context, we present a new method for constructing substitution boxes (S-boxes) based on cascaded quantum-inspired quantum walks and chaos inducement. the performance of the proposed S-box scheme is investigated via established S-box evaluation criterion and outcomes suggest that the constructed S-box has significant qualities for viable applications information security. Further, we present an efficient scheme for pseudo-random numbers generation (PRNG) whose sustainability over long periods remedies the periodicity problem associated with traditional cryptographic applications. Furthermore, by combining the two mechanisms, an atypical image encryption scheme is introduced. Simulation results and analysis validate that the proposed image encryption algorithm will offer gains in many cryptographic applications. Chaotic systems have attracted a great deal of attention across different scientific and engineering disciplines, especially in designing new cryptosystems and cryptanalysis. A chaotic system is an evolution map of a deterministic dynamical system that reconstructs the state of a system S 0 to a new state S 1 depending on the initial state of S 0 , a control parameter C, and time T 1. Chaotic maps exhibit the desired properties of ergodicity, unpredictability, and sensitivity to their control parameter(s) and initial value(s) that satisfy the requirements for cryptosystem confusion-diffusion properties 2-4. In fact, an inappropriate initial control parameter of a chaotic system can lead to non-chaotic behaviours, which implies the reduction in nonlinearity levels as well as circumvention of insecurity pitfalls 5,6. Currently, chaotic dynamical systems play a vital role in designing modern cryptographic applications, such as constructing S-boxes, generating pseudo-random numbers, designing image encryption algorithms and so on 7-16 , which are based on the unproven assumptions pertaining to computational complexity and that their constructions are based on mathematical models. However, with the development of quantum technologies, some of these traditional security mechanisms, and cryptographic applications may be effortlessly violated and abused 17-19. Among the computational models developed in quantum computation, quantum walks (QWs), which is a universal model of quantum computation that has been traditionally employed to de...

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantum-inspired cascaded discrete-time quantum walks with induced chaotic dynamics and cryptographic applications

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Amin

et al. 2020

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“…Meanwhile, advances in quantum technologies are expected to usher in the quantum era whence there will be adequate computing power to tamper with the best of today's traditional cryptographic algorithms [27,28]. Already, numerous quantum algorithms have been validated at small scale and lab level as well as via simulations.…”

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A Robust Quasi-Quantum Walks-based Steganography Protocol for Secure Transmission of Images on Cloud-based E-healthcare Platforms

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Traditionally, tamper-proof steganography involves using efficient protocols to encrypt the stego cover image and/or hidden message prior to embedding it into the carrier object. However, as the inevitable transition to the quantum computing paradigm beckons, its immense computing power will be exploited to violate even the best non-quantum, i.e., classical, stego protocol. On its part, quantum walks can be tailored to utilise their astounding ‘quantumness’ to propagate nonlinear chaotic behaviours as well as its sufficient sensitivity to alterations in primary key parameters both important properties for efficient information security. Our study explores using a classical (i.e., quantum-inspired) rendition of the controlled alternate quantum walks (i.e., CAQWs) model to fabricate a robust image steganography protocol for cloud-based E-healthcare platforms by locating content that overlays the secret (or hidden) bits. The design employed in our technique precludes the need for pre and/or post encryption of the carrier and secret images. Furthermore, our design simplifies the process to extract the confidential (hidden) information since only the stego image and primary states to run the CAQWs are required. We validate our proposed protocol on a dataset of medical images, which exhibited remarkable outcomes in terms of their security, good visual quality, high resistance to data loss attacks, high embedding capacity, etc., making the proposed scheme a veritable strategy for efficient medical image steganography.

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“…There are two models of quantum walks: continuous-time quantum walk and discrete-time quantum walk (QW) [28]. In this paper, we focus only on QW, which is widely used in designing modern cryptographic applications [31]- [40]. The elementary components of running one-walker QW acting on a circle have two quantum systems: a particle |ψ p known as a walker living in a p-dimensional Hilbert space H p and a 2-dimensional quantum system |ψ c = cos α|0 +sin α|1 known as a coin living in Hilbert space H c .…”

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“…Quantum walks (QW) is considered as a universal quantum computational model [28]- [30], that can be accepted as a good key generator because of its inherent nonlinear chaotic dynamical behaviour [31]- [40]. QW similarly to chaos has chaotic behaviour and high sensitivity to initial conditions.…”

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Providing End-to-End Security Using Quantum Walks in IoT Networks

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Internet of Things acts an essential role in our everyday lives and it definitely has the potential to grow on the importance and revolutionize our future. However, the present communication technologies have several security related issues which is required to provide secure end to end connectivity among services. Moreover, due to recent, rapid growth of quantum technologies, most common security mechanisms considered secure today may be soon imperilled. Thus, the modern security mechanisms during their construction also require the power of quantum technologies to resist various potential attacks from quantum computers. Because of its characteristics, quantum walks (QW) is considered as a universal quantum computation paradigm that can be accepted as an excellent key generator. In this regard, in this paper a new lightweight image encryption scheme based on QW for secure data transfer in the internet of things platforms and wireless networking with edge computing is proposed. The introduced approach utilises the power of nonlinear dynamic behaviour of QW to construct permutation boxes and generates pseudo-random numbers for encrypting the plain image after dividing it into blocks. The results of the conducted simulation and numerical analyses confirm that the presented encryption algorithm is effective. The encrypted images have randomness properties, no useful data about the ciphered image can be obtained via analysing the correlation of adjacent pixels. Moreover, the entropy value is close to 8, the number of the pixel change rate is greater than 99.61%, and there is high sensitivity of the key parameters with large key space to resist various attacks. INDEX TERMS Quantum walks, lightweight cipher, data transfer in IoT, image encryption, edge computing, wireless communication.

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Efficient quantum-based security protocols for information sharing and data protection in 5G networks

Cited by 96 publications

References 46 publications

Quantum-inspired cascaded discrete-time quantum walks with induced chaotic dynamics and cryptographic applications

Quantum-inspired cascaded discrete-time quantum walks with induced chaotic dynamics and cryptographic applications

A Robust Quasi-Quantum Walks-based Steganography Protocol for Secure Transmission of Images on Cloud-based E-healthcare Platforms

Providing End-to-End Security Using Quantum Walks in IoT Networks

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