QKD Entity Source Authentication: Defense-in-Depth for Post Quantum Cryptography. (arXiv:2311.10636v1 [cs.CR])

Quantum key distribution (QKD) was conceived by Charles Bennett and Gilles
Brassard in December of 1984. In the ensuing 39 years QKD systems have been
deployed around the world to provide secure encryption for terrestrial as well
as satellite communication. In 2016 the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) began a program to standardize a series of quantum resistant
algorithms to replace our current encryption standards thereby protecting
against future quantum computers breaking public key cryptography. This program
is …

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