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The Internet has become an increasingly appealing medium for telecare medicine information systems (TMISs). However, the open nature of the Internet poses serious security threats and vulnerabilities to TMISs and privacy concerns to the patients and medical personnel. This work proposes a hybrid quantum key distribution protocol to provide security in TMISs, leveraging the key agreement of classical and quantum key distribution. Our protocol induces low energy and computation overheads to achieve privacy and trusted operations for TMISs. This is because quantum key distribution employs the principles of quantum mechanics rather than computational complexity, to avoid various attacks such as the man-in-the-middle attacks, the replay attacks and the passive attacks. Meanwhile, classical cryptography can be used to achieve user authentication efficiently. Therefore, our protocol may be available with the rapid developments of extensive experiments for quantum key distribution.
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Hong Lai has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61702427), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. XDJK2016C043) and the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. SWU115091), and the financial support in part by the 1000-Plan of Chongqing by Southwest University (No. SWU116007). Mingxing Luo is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61772437, 61303039), and Sichuan Youth Science & Technique Foundation (No. 2017JQ0048). Fuyuan Xiao is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. XDJK2015C107) and the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. SWU115008). The paper is also supported by A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) and Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET).
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Lai, H., Luo, M., Qu, Z. et al. A Hybrid Quantum Key Distribution Protocol for Tele-care Medicine Information Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 98, 929–943 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4902-z
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