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Certificateless based Quantum Cryptosystem for Ad-Hoc UWB-IR

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Ad-Hoc UWB-IR technology is being researched and exploited in different fields. Some of its potential applications include Military solutions, emergency search and rescue, collaborative computing, distributed computing, and smart-home applications. Yet, in any of the previously cited domains, Information and network security is a corner stone. Consequently, it becomes mandatory to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability of the different assets present in the network through the usage of adequate cryptography protocols and technics. In this paper we discussed the security specifications of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard based Symmetric Key Cryptography (SKC) scheme. Then, we briefly introduced some of the different vulnerabilities and weaknesses present in this scheme. In fact, we arrived to prove that Public Key Cryptography PKC offers better key management and communications security results SKC. We demonstrated that Certificateless (CL-PKC) scheme is the most suitable Asymmetric Key Management protocol for Ad-Hoc UWB-IR networks. Finally, after a very intense and extreme evaluation of different Quantum Public Key Cryptosystem (QPKCS), we concluded that the most optimum one to be used with the CL scheme in order to secure key management and data communications in Ad- Hoc UWB-IR Networks is the Algebraic Eraser (AE) protocol based on braid groups.

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    Jamel Miri & Bechir Nsiri

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Miri, J., Nsiri, B. & Bouallegue, R. Certificateless based Quantum Cryptosystem for Ad-Hoc UWB-IR. Wireless Pers Commun 114, 1805–1823 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07449-1

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