Quantum Key Delivery Platform for Predictive Key Shortage Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The generation and sharing of encryption keys using quantum key delivery technologies are insufficient to meet the increased demand due to improved data communication speeds, leading to potential shortages and the need for adaptive management to balance supply and demand.
Innovation Solution
A quantum key delivery service platform that includes a management server to monitor, predict, and manage encryption key consumption, detect shortages, and adaptively manage key distribution through interchanging and backup strategies using artificial intelligence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If quantum key delivery is used to generate and share encryption keys, then cryptographic communication security is improved, but the key generation speed is insufficient to meet high-speed data communication demands
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by predicting future encryption key consumption amounts before depletion occurs. The management server continuously monitors current consumption rates, forecasts future needs, and proactively generates and stores backup encryption keys in advance, ensuring key availability without waiting for depletion crises.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the encryption key management into multiple independent quantum key delivery devices and cryptographic communication devices. Each device has its own key generation and consumption capabilities, allowing parallel operation that increases overall key supply capacity while maintaining security through distributed architecture.
2Reliability
If encryption keys are stored in large amounts to meet high-speed communication demands, then key supply stability is improved, but storage costs and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the management server continuously monitors encryption key consumption rates from cryptographic communication devices, compares actual consumption against predicted consumption, and dynamically adjusts key generation and distribution strategies. This closed-loop control optimizes storage levels without excessive complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes parameters dynamically by adjusting the amount of encryption keys to be generated and stored based on real-time consumption patterns, communication speeds, and predicted future demands. The system adapts storage levels and generation rates as variables rather than fixed values, optimizing resource allocation.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If the amount of encryption keys to be stored is increased, then the period of stable cryptographic communication is extended, but the cost of key management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the encryption key storage amount and generation rate variable rather than static. The system continuously adapts these parameters based on real-time consumption monitoring, communication speed changes, and predictive analytics, allowing optimal extension of stable communication periods without excessive key accumulation.
4Productivity
If quantum key delivery devices generate encryption keys at high speed, then key supply capacity is improved, but the balance between supply and consumption becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The management server performs preliminary actions by predicting future encryption key consumption amounts based on current rates and communication patterns. This prediction capability allows the system to generate and distribute keys at optimal rates in advance, balancing high supply capacity with actual demand to prevent both depletion and excessive accumulation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Ensures stable cryptographic communication by preventing encryption key depletion, optimizing key distribution, and maintaining communication efficiency through predictive management and intelligent key interchange.
Implementation Method 1
The quantum key delivery is a technology that uses the behavior of photons, and generates and shares encryption keys by sending and receiving encryption key information using photons between bases using optical fibers (or vacuum) as a medium
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AI summary
According to one embodiment, a quantum key delivery service platform includes a plurality of quantum key delivery devices and a management server. The server monitors a storage amount of the encryption keys in the plurality of quantum key delivery devices, records a consumption record of the encryption keys for each of the plurality of cryptographic communication devices, predicts a consumption amount of the encryption keys based on the consumption record of the encryption keys, and detects a sign of shortage of the encryption keys based on the storage amount of the encryption keys and a prediction result of the consumption amount of the cryptographic keys.