Quantum Secure Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
M. Suhail Zubairy
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Crucial Step ◽  
Rsa Algorithm ◽  
Quantum Secure Communication ◽  
Secure Channels ◽  
Principle Of Complementarity

Cryptography is a method of secure communication between two or more parties. The crucial step is exchanging a key in a secure manner. There are, however, two problems with conventional cryptography. First the sender and the receiver should exchange the key through highly reliable and secure channels. The second problem is that a clever eavesdropper can, by a careful analysis of the sent information, reconstruct the key. In this chapter, schemes to overcome these problems are presented. First a scheme for exchanging a key over public channels, the so-called RSA algorithm, is discussed. Then the protocols for the quantum key distribution (QKD), the Bennett–Brassard-84 (BB-84) and Bennett-92(B-92) protocols, are then presented. The QKD protocols are exclusively derived using Bohr’s principle of complementarity. An application of these ideas to the design of secure quantum money is discussed.

scholarly journals Vulnerability of Satellite Quantum Key Distribution to Disruption from Ground-Based Lasers

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 7904
Author(s):  
David R. Gozzard ◽  
Shane Walsh ◽  
Till Weinhold
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Optical Scattering ◽  
Excess Noise ◽  
Atmospheric Attenuation ◽  
Quantum Bit ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Quantum Secure Communication ◽  
Critical Technology

Satellite-mediated quantum key distribution (QKD) is set to become a critical technology for quantum-secure communication over long distances. While satellite QKD cannot be effectively eavesdropped, we show it can be disrupted (or ‘jammed’) with relatively simple and readily available equipment. We developed an atmospheric attenuation and satellite optical scattering model to estimate the rate of excess noise photons that can be injected into a satellite QKD channel by an off-axis laser, and calculated the effect this added noise has on the quantum bit error rate. We show that a ground-based laser on the order of 1 kW can significantly disrupt modern satellite QKD systems due to photons scattering off the satellite being detected by the QKD receiver on the ground. This class of laser can be purchased commercially, meaning such a method of disruption could be a serious threat to effectively securing high-value communications via satellite QKD in the future. We also discuss these results in relation to likely future developments in satellite-mediated QKD systems, and countermeasures that can be taken against this, and related methods, of disruption.

scholarly journals Security Analysis of Discrete-Modulated Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution over Seawater Channel

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 4956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinchao Ruan ◽  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Xiaoxue Wang ◽  
Xuan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Heterodyne Detection ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Transmission Distance ◽  
Better Than

We investigate the optical absorption and scattering properties of four different kinds of seawater as the quantum channel. The models of discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) in free-space seawater channel are briefly described, and the performance of the four-state protocol and the eight-state protocol in asymptotic and finite-size cases is analyzed in detail. Simulation results illustrate that the more complex is the seawater composition, the worse is the performance of the protocol. For different types of seawater channels, we can improve the performance of the protocol by selecting different optimal modulation variances and controlling the extra noise on the channel. Besides, we can find that the performance of the eight-state protocol is better than that of the four-state protocol, and there is little difference between homodyne detection and heterodyne detection. Although the secret key rate of the protocol that we propose is still relatively low and the maximum transmission distance is only a few hundred meters, the research on CV-QKD over the seawater channel is of great significance, which provides a new idea for the construction of global secure communication network.

scholarly journals Physical-layer encryption on the public internet: A stochastic approach to the Kish-Sethuraman cipher

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1460361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan J. Gunn ◽  
James M. Chappell ◽  
Andrew Allison ◽  
Derek Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Stochastic Approach ◽  
Physical Layer ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Theoretic Security ◽  
Transit Times ◽  
The One

While information-theoretic security is often associated with the one-time pad and quantum key distribution, noisy transport media leave room for classical techniques and even covert operation. Transit times across the public internet exhibit a degree of randomness, and cannot be determined noiselessly by an eavesdropper. We demonstrate the use of these measurements for information-theoretically secure communication over the public internet.

scholarly journals DECOY STATE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION

2005 ◽  
Vol 03 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 143-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOI-KWONG LO
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Generation Rate ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Decoy State ◽  
Bb84 Protocol ◽  
High Loss ◽  
Statistical Fluctuations

Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two parties to communicate in absolute security based on the fundamental laws of physics. Up till now, it is widely believed that unconditionally secure QKD based on standard Bennett-Brassard (BB84) protocol is limited in both key generation rate and distance because of imperfect devices. Here, we solve these two problems directly by presenting new protocols that are feasible with only current technology. Surprisingly, our new protocols can make fiber-based QKD unconditionally secure at distances over 100km (for some experiments, such as GYS) and increase the key generation rate from O(η2) in prior art to O(η) where η is the overall transmittance. Our method is to develop the decoy state idea (first proposed by W.-Y. Hwang in "Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication", Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 057901 (2003)) and consider simple extensions of the BB84 protocol. This part of work is published in "Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution", . We present a general theory of the decoy state protocol and propose a decoy method based on only one signal state and two decoy states. We perform optimization on the choice of intensities of the signal state and the two decoy states. Our result shows that a decoy state protocol with only two types of decoy states—a vacuum and a weak decoy state—asymptotically approaches the theoretical limit of the most general type of decoy state protocols (with an infinite number of decoy states). We also present a one-decoy-state protocol as a special case of Vacuum+Weak decoy method. Moreover, we provide estimations on the effects of statistical fluctuations and suggest that, even for long distance (larger than 100km) QKD, our two-decoy-state protocol can be implemented with only a few hours of experimental data. In conclusion, decoy state quantum key distribution is highly practical. This part of work is published in "Practical Decoy State for Quantum Key Distribution", . We also have done the first experimental demonstration of decoy state quantum key distribution, over 15km of Telecom fibers. This part of work is published in "Experimental Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution Over 15km", .

Two-way quantum key distribution in a uniformly distributed quantum space via a special mapping and its analytical security proofs

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950010
Author(s):  
Guodong Kang ◽  
Qingping Zhou ◽  
Maofa Fang
Keyword(s):  
General Model ◽  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Reduced Model ◽  
Quantum Space ◽  
Security Proofs ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Security Proof ◽  
Special Mapping

Within the field of quantum cryptography, two-way direct quantum secure communication is a relatively new proposal for sharing secret information that is not fully explored yet. We propose a general model for two-way deterministic quantum key distribution, and a special mapping from integers to a uniformly distributed quantum space is introduced for qubit pad preparation. A reduced model, more practical, is also proposed by relaxing the security assumption of the qubit pad preparation. The main work of this paper focuses on the security proofs of these two models. Under collective attacks, we fully analyze the security basis of the general model, and, in a relatively simple way, we provide an analytical security proof for the reduced model in a depolarization quantum channel. Our results show exactly the analytical upper-bound of the amount of useful key that a powerful eavesdropper could extract in both models, and the security of the reduced model is not reduced. One advantage of this work is that the special mapping guarantees the random distribution property of the qubit pad in a uniformly distributed quantum space, thus guaranteeing the security of the two models, and the other advantage is the simplicity of the analytical derivations of security proofs.

High performance reconciliation for continuous-variable quantum key distribution with LDPC code

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dakai Lin ◽  
Duan Huang ◽  
Peng Huang ◽  
Jinye Peng ◽  
Guihua Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Graphics Processing Unit ◽  
Ldpc Code ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Secret Key

Reconciliation is a significant procedure in a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system. It is employed to extract secure secret key from the resulted string through quantum channel between two users. However, the efficiency and the speed of previous reconciliation algorithms are low. These problems limit the secure communication distance and the secure key rate of CV-QKD systems. In this paper, we proposed a high-speed reconciliation algorithm through employing a well-structured decoding scheme based on low density parity-check (LDPC) code. The complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced obviously. By using a graphics processing unit (GPU) device, our method may reach a reconciliation speed of 25 Mb/s for a CV-QKD system, which is currently the highest level and paves the way to high-speed CV-QKD.

scholarly journals Quantum Key Distribution Based-on Refraction and Polarization Entanglement

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 2911-2918
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Entangled State ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
The Public ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Refraction Factor

Cryptography is the specialty of encoding and decoding messages and exists as extended as the individuals have doubted from one another and need secure correspondence. The traditional techniques for encryption naturally depend on any among public key or secret key approaches. In general, the public key encryption depends on two keys, for example, public key and private key. Since encryption and decryption keys are different, it isn't important to safely distribute a key. In this approach, the difficult of the numerical issues is assumed, not demonstrated. All the security will be easily compromised if proficient factoring algorithms are found. In secret key encryption two clients at first create secret key, which is a long string of arbitrarily selected bits and safely shares between them. At that point the clients can utilize the secret key along with the algorithms to encryption and decryption information. The procedures are complicated and also planned such a way that every bit of output is based on every bit of input. There are two fundamental issues with secret key encryption; first one is that by breaking down the openly known encoding algorithms, it gets simpler to decrypt the message. The subsequent one is that it experiences key-conveyance issue. As a result of the ongoing improvements in quantum processing and quantum data hypothesis, the quantum computers presents genuine difficulties to generally utilized current cryptographic strategy. The improvement of quantum cryptography beat the deficiencies of old style cryptography and achieves these huge accomplishments by using the properties of infinitesimal articles, for example, photon with its polarization and entangled state. In this paper, Polarization by refraction based quantum key distribution (PR-QKD) is proposed for quantum key generation and distribution. The proposed work considers three basis of polarization such as rectilinear (horizontal and vertical), circular (left-circular and right-circular), ellipse (left-ellipse and rightellipse) and refraction factor. This quantum key can be used for secure communication between two users who are spatially separated and also offer intrusion detection ability to detect attackers. The theoretical approach and conceptual results are discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Optimization of ATP System Based on Quantum Secure Communication and Its Tracking Control Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jin Liu ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Carlo Cattani ◽  
Haima Yang ◽  
Song Wanqing
Keyword(s):  
Ground Motion ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Tracking Control ◽  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Tracking Accuracy ◽  
Motion Platform

In quantum key distribution experiments, ground motion is usually used to simulate satellite-based motion. The posture fluctuation of the platform affects the normal operation of the acquisition, tracking, and pointing (abbreviated as ATP) system seriously. To achieve the verification of the ground motion platform, the ATP parameters of the ground simulation motion system cannot be designed only according to the satellite-based ATP parameters. To solve this problem, a set of initial pointing system and inertial stabilization system is added to the simulation ATP system. This provides a technical solution for the ground simulation ATP system similar to the satellite-based motion platform. In the meanwhile, a tracking control strategy based on the identification method is proposed by establishing identification symbols. Compared with traditional proportion, integral, and differential (abbreviated as PID) control, this method overcomes the shortcoming of tentative modification of the control parameters and improves the stability and adaptability of the tracking control process. Tracking accuracy of ±0.1° is achieved under heavy-load conditions. This guarantees the success of the quantum key distribution (QKD) verification test of the ground motion platform.

Study on Quantum Key Distribution

2013 ◽  
Vol 275-277 ◽  
pp. 2515-2518
Author(s):  
Xiao Qiang Guo ◽  
Cui Ling Luo ◽  
Yan Yan
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Bb84 Protocol

Quantum key distribution (QKD) uses quantum mechanics to guarantee secure communication. It enables two parties to produce a shared random secret key known only to them, which can then be used to encrypt and decrypt messages. QKD is a research hotspot of international academia in recent years. We introduce some protocols: BB84 protocol, E91 protocol, SARG04 protocol.

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