Multi-Party Quantum Key Agreement Protocol for Smart Home Environment

The most typical case of applying technology and communication technology to life may be the popular smart home series. Users can remotely control smart devices through mobile phones, which is convenient and fast, greatly changing people’s way of life. However, the safe login of smart devices has become a thorny problem. With the emergence of quantum computer, the common encryption method cannot prevent quantum attacks. In addition, a family often has multiple smart devices and multiple family members. Each user can log in to multiple smart devices, and each device can also be logged in by multiple users. Therefore, in view of the above situation, we propose a multi-party quantum session key agreement protocol based on Bell states and single particles, which can be used for multiple participants to negotiate session keys together, and improve the efficiency of users logging in and using smart devices. Moreover, our protocol ensures that each party has an equal opportunity to decide the final shared key, no party can determine the final key individually. Furthermore, security and efficiency analysis show that our protocol can achieve ideal results under the existing quantum technology.