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Fully device independent Conference Key Agreement

Quantum Physics 2022-02-22 v3

Abstract

We present the first security analysis of conference key agreement (CKA) in the most adversarial model of device independence (DI). Our protocol can be implemented {by any experimental setup} that is capable of performing Bell tests (specifically, we introduce the "Parity-CHSH" inequality), and security can in principle be obtained for any violation of the Parity-CHSH inequality. We use a direct connection between the NN-partite Parity-CHSH inequality and the CHSH inequality. Namely, the Parity-CHSH inequality can be considered as a CHSH inequality or another CHSH inequality (equivalent up to relabelling) depending on the parity of the output of N2N-2 of the parties. We compare the asymptotic key rate for DICKA to the case where the parties use N1N-1 DIQKD protocols in order to generate a common key. We show that for some regime of noise the DICKA protocol leads to better rates.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1708.00798,
  title  = {Fully device independent Conference Key Agreement},
  author = {Jérémy Ribeiro and Gláucia Murta and Stephanie Wehner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00798},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6+17 pages, 1 figure. v2: This update addresses the comment made in [arXiv:1906.01710]. v3: corrected typo in equations (A.65) and (11)

R2 v1 2026-06-22T21:04:49.978Z