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Information reconciliation (IR) ensures the correctness of quantum key distribution systems, by correcting the error bits existed in the sifted keys. In this article, we propose a polar codes-based IR scheme with the frozen bits erasure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Bang-Ying Tang , Chun-Qing Wu , Wei Peng , Bo Liu , Wan-Rong Yu

Quantum computing poses significant threats to conventional cryptographic techniques such as RSA and AES, motivating the need for quantum secure communication methods. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers information theoretic security…

The speed at which two remote parties can exchange secret keys over a fixed-length fiber-optic cable in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) is currently limited by the computational complexity of post-processing algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Mario Milicevic , Chen Feng , Lei M. Zhang , P. Glenn Gulak

In this brief review, we discuss the role that quantum correlations, as quantified by quantum discord, play in two interesting settings. The first one is discerning which unitaries have been applied on a quantum system, by taking advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Mile Gu , Stefano Pirandola

Semi-quantum key distribution protocols are designed to allow two parties to establish a shared secret key, secure against an all-powerful adversary, even when one of the users is restricted to measuring and preparing quantum states in one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Omar Amer , Walter O. Krawec

Cascades are a common type of machine learning systems in which a large, remote model can be queried if a local model is not able to accurately label a user's data by itself. Serving stacks for large language models (LLMs) increasingly use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Florian Hartmann , Duc-Hieu Tran , Peter Kairouz , Victor Cărbune , Blaise Aguera y Arcas

In contrast to classical public-key cryptosystems, where the security of encoded messages relies on on computational assumptions, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two distant parties to establish a shared secret key that, when…

In this thesis we consider the problem of information hiding in the scenarios of interactive systems, statistical disclosure control, and refinement of specifications. We apply quantitative approaches to information flow in the first two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Mário S. Alvim

Reconciliation is a crucial procedure in post-processing of continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system, which is used to make two distant legitimate parties share identical corrected keys. The adaptive reconciliation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Xuan Wen , Qiong Li , Haokun Mao , Yi Luo , Bingze Yan

Reconciliation is an important step to correct errors in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). In QKD, after comparing basis, two legitimate parties possess two correlative keys which have some differences and they could obtain identical keys…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Zhengchao Wei , Zhi Ma

This paper investigates an efficient and practical information reconciliation method in the case where two parties have access to correlated continuous random variables. We show that reconciliation is a special case of channel coding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Andrew Thangaraj , Steven W. McLaughlin

This study proposes a new mediated asymmetric semi-quantum key distribution (MASQKD) protocol. With the help of a dishonest third party, two classical participants, who have only limited asymmetric quantum capabilities, can share a secret…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Yi-Fan Yang , Tzonelih Hwang

Reconciliation is an essential procedure for continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). As the most commonly used reconciliation protocol in short-distance CV-QKD, the slice error correction (SEC) allows a system to distill more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Xuan Wen , Qiong Li , Haokun Mao , Xiaojun Wen , Nan Chen

Previous research has aimed to precisely estimate information leakage to improve the secure key rate (SKR) and maximum transmission distance in quantum key distribution (QKD). However, existing methods repeatedly considerd the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Hao-Kun Mao , Bo Yang , Yu-Cheng Qiao , Bing-Ze Yan , Qiang Zhao , Bing-Jie Xu , Qiong Li

There are often situations where two remote users each have data, and wish to (i) verify the equality of their data, and (ii) whenever a discrepancy is found afterwards, determine which of the two modified his data. The most common example…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Go Kato , Mikio Fujiwara , Toyohiro Tsurumaru

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a cryptographic solution that leverages the properties of quantum mechanics to be resistant and secure even against an attacker with unlimited computational power. Satellite-based links are important in QKD…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Thomas Scarinzi , Davide Orsucci , Marco Ferrari , Luca Barletta

The goal of this note is to explain the reconciliation problem for continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocols with a discrete modulation. Such modulation formats are attractive since they significantly simplify experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Anthony Leverrier

Quantum Internet signifies a remarkable advancement in communication technology, harnessing the principles of quantum entanglement and superposition to facilitate unparalleled levels of security and efficient computations. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Mohamed Shaban , Muhammad Ismail

We investigate the performance of continuous variable quantum key distribution scheme in a practical setting. More specifically, we take non-ideal error reconciliation procedure into account. The quantum channel connecting the two honest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Heid , Norbert Lütkenhaus

In this paper, we introduce a reconciliation protocol with a two-step error correction scheme that uses a short-blocklength, low-rate code and a long-blocklength, high-rate code. We simulate the protocol using a short-block-length…