An ETSI GS QKD compliant TLS implementation

2025/06/24 by Thomas Prévost, Prévost, Thomas, Bruno Martin +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2506.19409

openalex publication_date 2025/06/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A modification of the TLS protocol is presented, using our implementation of the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) standard ETSI GS QKD 014 v1.1.1. We rely on the Rustls library for this. The TLS protocol is modified while maintaining backward compatibility on the client and server side. We thus wish to participate in the effort to generalize the use of QKD on the Internet. We used our protocol for a video conference call encrypted by QKD. Finally, we analyze the performance of our protocol, comparing the time needed to establish a handshake to that of TLS 1.3.

Citations

• Quantum-Safe integration of TLS in SDN networks
• MadQCI: a heterogeneous and scalable SDN QKD network deployed in production facilities

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