Strongly Secure Connection Establishment (S04)

• Subject Area: Theoretical Computer Science ; Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 236615297

Secure communication between endpoints can be decomposed into a key exchange protocol and a subsequent channel protocol. The goal of the project is to harden these protocols against advanced attacks, both on the network layer and the end points. In particular, they shall withstand fault and quantum attacks. To this end, the project considers the usage of multiple, distributed communication paths on the one hand, and optical physical unclonable functions with quantum readouts for authentication, on the other.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1119: CROSSING - Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Gernot Alber; Professor Dr. Marc Fischlin