Secure Multi-Party Biometric Verification using QKD assisted Quantum Oblivious Transfer

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Main Authors: Ramos, Mariana F., Hentschel, Michael, Valbusa, Federico, Luchian, Costin, Achleitner, Martin, Trenti, Alessandro, Slater, Marie-Christine, Lemus, Mariano, Lorünser, Thomas, Hübel, Hannes
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author Ramos, Mariana F.
Hentschel, Michael
Valbusa, Federico
Luchian, Costin
Achleitner, Martin
Trenti, Alessandro
Slater, Marie-Christine
Lemus, Mariano
Lorünser, Thomas
Hübel, Hannes
author_facet Ramos, Mariana F.
Hentschel, Michael
Valbusa, Federico
Luchian, Costin
Achleitner, Martin
Trenti, Alessandro
Slater, Marie-Christine
Lemus, Mariano
Lorünser, Thomas
Hübel, Hannes
contents We present a practical implementation of a secure multiparty computation application enabled by quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) on an entanglement-based physical layer. The QOT protocol uses polarization-encoded entangled states to share oblivious keys between two parties with quantum key distribution (QKD) providing authentication. Our system integrates the post-processing for QKD and QOT, both sharing a single physical layer, ensuring efficient key generation and authentication. Authentication involves hashing messages into a crypto-context, verifying tags, and replenishing keys through a parallel QKD pipeline, which handles both key post-processing and authentication. Oblivious keys are generated over 12.9 km with a channel loss of 8.47 dB. In a back-to-back setup, a QOT rate of $9.3\times10^{-3}$ OTs/second is achieved, corresponding to 1 minute and 48 seconds per OT, primarily limited by the entanglement source. Using pre-distributed keys improved the rate to 0.11 OTs/second, or 9.1 seconds per OT. The considered QOT protocol is statistically correct, computationally secure for an honest receiver, and statistically secure for an honest sender, assuming a computationally hiding, statistically binding commitment, and a verifiable error-correcting scheme. A practical use case is demonstrated for privacy-preserving fingerprint matching against no-fly lists from Interpol and the United Nations. The fingerprint is secret-shared across two sites, ensuring security, while the matching is performed using the MASCOT protocol, supported by QOT. The application required 128 OTs, with the highest security achieved in 20 minutes and 39 seconds. This work demonstrates the feasibility of QOT in secure quantum communication applications.
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spellingShingle Secure Multi-Party Biometric Verification using QKD assisted Quantum Oblivious Transfer
Ramos, Mariana F.
Hentschel, Michael
Valbusa, Federico
Luchian, Costin
Achleitner, Martin
Trenti, Alessandro
Slater, Marie-Christine
Lemus, Mariano
Lorünser, Thomas
Hübel, Hannes
Quantum Physics
81 Quantum Theory
J.2
We present a practical implementation of a secure multiparty computation application enabled by quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) on an entanglement-based physical layer. The QOT protocol uses polarization-encoded entangled states to share oblivious keys between two parties with quantum key distribution (QKD) providing authentication. Our system integrates the post-processing for QKD and QOT, both sharing a single physical layer, ensuring efficient key generation and authentication. Authentication involves hashing messages into a crypto-context, verifying tags, and replenishing keys through a parallel QKD pipeline, which handles both key post-processing and authentication. Oblivious keys are generated over 12.9 km with a channel loss of 8.47 dB. In a back-to-back setup, a QOT rate of $9.3\times10^{-3}$ OTs/second is achieved, corresponding to 1 minute and 48 seconds per OT, primarily limited by the entanglement source. Using pre-distributed keys improved the rate to 0.11 OTs/second, or 9.1 seconds per OT. The considered QOT protocol is statistically correct, computationally secure for an honest receiver, and statistically secure for an honest sender, assuming a computationally hiding, statistically binding commitment, and a verifiable error-correcting scheme. A practical use case is demonstrated for privacy-preserving fingerprint matching against no-fly lists from Interpol and the United Nations. The fingerprint is secret-shared across two sites, ensuring security, while the matching is performed using the MASCOT protocol, supported by QOT. The application required 128 OTs, with the highest security achieved in 20 minutes and 39 seconds. This work demonstrates the feasibility of QOT in secure quantum communication applications.
title Secure Multi-Party Biometric Verification using QKD assisted Quantum Oblivious Transfer
topic Quantum Physics
81 Quantum Theory
J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05327