IACR News item: 15 September 2023
Gideon Samid
ePrint Report
This article evaluates the innovation landscape facing the challenge of generating fresh shared randomness for cryptographic key exchange and various cyber security protocols. It discusses the main innovation thrust today, focused on quantum entanglement and on efficient engineering solutions to BB84, and its related alternatives. This innovation outlook highlights non-quantum solutions, and describes NEPSAR – a mechanical complexity based solution, which is applicable to any number of key sharing parties. Short-lived secret keys are also mentioned, as well as far-fetched innovation routes.
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