English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantum Security for the Physical Layer

200 papers

Quantum error correcting code is a useful tool to combat noise in quantum computation. It is also an important ingredient in a number of unconditionally secure quantum key distribution schemes. Here, I am going to show that quantum code can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. F. Chau

A communication protocol is introduced that allows the receiver of a message to place an a posteriori bound on the amount of information that an eavesdropper could have obtained during transmission of that message. This quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul A. Lopata , Thomas B. Bahder

Quantum information processing exploits the quantum nature of information. It offers fundamentally new solutions in the field of computer science and extends the possibilities to a level that cannot be imagined in classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre , Hung Viet Nguyen

Quantum communication is the art of transferring quantum states, or quantum bits of information (qubits), from one place to another. On the fundamental side, this allows one to distribute entanglement and demonstrate quantum nonlocality…

Quantum communication holds promise for absolutely security in secret message transmission. Quantum secure direct communication is an important mode of the quantum communication in which secret messages are securely communicated over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Jianyong Hu , Bo Yu , Mingyong Jing , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Guoqing Qin , Guilu Long

Short-packet communication is a key technology to support two emerging application scenarios in 5G and beyond 5G, massive machine type communication (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low latency communication (uRLLC), which are introduced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Chen Feng , Hui-ming Wang

It is revealed that quantum repeating devices and quantum seals have a very close relationship, thus the theory in one field can be applied to the other. Consequently, it is shown that the fidelity bounds and optimality of quantum repeating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 Guang Ping He

Quantum Key Exchange (QKE, also known as Quantum Key Distribution or QKD) allows communicating parties to securely establish cryptographic keys. It is a well-established fact that all QKE protocols require that the parties have access to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 Kenneth G. Paterson , Fred Piper , Ruediger Schack

Quantum communications promise to revolutionise the way information is exchanged and protected. Unlike their classical counterpart, they are based on dim optical pulses that cannot be amplified by conventional optical repeaters.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 M. Minder , M. Pittaluga , G. L. Roberts , M. Lucamarini , J. F. Dynes , Z. L. Yuan , A. J. Shields

Development of information technology, especially in the field of computer network allows the exchange of information faster and more complex and the data that is exchanged can vary. Security of data on communication in the network is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Heru Pranata , Leon Andretti Abdillah , Usman Ependi

We give a security proof of quantum cryptography based entirely on entanglement purification. Our proof applies to all possible attacks (individual and coherent). It implies the security of cryptographic keys distributed with the help of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hans Aschauer , Hans J. Briegel

We review a communication protocol recently proposed by us that makes use of a two-way quantum channel. We provide a characterization of such a protocol from a practical perspective, and consider the most relevant eavesdropping strategies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Marco Lucamarini , Stefano Mancini

When a user sends a message over a wireless network, the message does not travel as-is. It is encrypted, authenticated, encapsulated, and transformed as it descends the protocol stack from the application layer to the physical medium. Each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ashish Kundu , Vishal Chakraborty , Ramana Kompella

We explore covert communication of qubits over an arbitrary quantum channel. Covert communication conceals the transmissions in the channel noise, ensuring that an adversary is unable to detect their presence. We show the achievability of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Evan J. D. Anderson , Michael S. Bullock , Filip Rozpędek , Boulat A. Bash

Optical layer attacks on communication networks are one of the weakest reinforced areas of the network, allowing attackers to overcome security when proper safeguards are not put into place. Here, we present our solution or Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Adrian Chan , Mostafa Khalil , Kh Arif Shahriar , David V. Plant , Lawrence R. Chen , Randy Kuang

A notion of quantum conference is introduced in analogy with the usual notion of a conference that happens frequently in today's world. Quantum conference is defined as a multiparty secure communication task that allows each party to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Anindita Banerjee , Kishore Thapliyal , Chitra Shukla , Anirban Pathak

By harnessing quantum effects, we nowadays can use encryption that is in principle proven to withstand any conceivable attack. These fascinating quantum features have been implemented in metropolitan quantum networks around the world. In…

Quantum information processing exploits the quantum nature of information. It offers fundamentally new solutions in the field of computer science and extends the possibilities to a level that cannot be imagined in classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre

The QUIC protocol is a new approach to combine encryption and transport layer stream abstraction into one protocol to lower latency and improve security. However, the decision to encrypt transport layer functionality may limit the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Konrad Yuri Gbur , Florian Tschorsch

In this paper we review a number of issues on the security of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols that bear directly on the relevant physics or mathematical representation of the QKD cryptosystem. It is shown that the cryptosystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Horace P. Yuen