Cryptography, Volume 4, Issue 4 (December 2020) – 12 articles
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In conventional cryptography, information-theoretically secure message authentication can be achieved by means of universal hash functions and requires that two legitimate users share a random secret key, which is at least twice as long as the tag. We address the question of whether quantum resources can offer any advantage over classical unconditionally secure message authentication codes (MACs). In particular, we consider a rather broad class of symmetric prepare-and-measure quantum MACs, where legitimate users share a common secret random key, and the quantum tag pertains to the state of a quantum system, which is sent to the receiver together with the message. It is shown that such quantum MACs cannot do better than their classical counterparts. View this paper
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