A New Mechanism for Enhancing the Security of Military Internet of Things by Using Quantum and Classic Cryptography

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Supreme National Defense University Group for Mine, Defensive Technologies and Passive Defense

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One of the dangers that is inflicted to the world by quantum algorithms is their usage to break the security of some systems based on classical cryptography. Nonetheless, the security of systems based on quantum cryptographic algorithms is safe from this risk. Another useful feature of quantum cryptography algorithms is the ability to figuring out any eavesdropping in the communication channel. Also, it is possible to safely distribute shares from the stock maker to the shareholders in the quantum secret sharing algorithm, while this is not possible in the classic secret sharing algorithm. One of the most important applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) network is the Military Internet of Things (MIoT). Due to the fact that MIoT has a direct impact on battlefields, military usage of IoT is more important than civilian applications. Therefore, security issues related to various parts of the MIoT are very critical. In this paper, we have presented a new design using a combination of classical cryptography (specifically the newly introduced digital signature scheme) and quantum cryptography (specifically quantum secret sharing) to improve the security of MIoT. Compared to similar research that have been conducted in this area, the introduced scheme provides more security requirements and is resistant to almost most of famous attacks on this network.

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Electronic and Cyber Defense
Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34
Serial No. 34, Summer Quarterly
June 2021
Pages 29-49

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  • Receive Date: 11 July 2020
  • Revise Date: 26 January 2021
  • Accept Date: 11 January 2021
  • Publish Date: 22 June 2021

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