English
Related papers

Related papers: A Secure Key Sharing Algorithm Exploiting Phase Re…

200 papers

Quantum cryptography is now considered as a promising technology due to its promise of unconditional security. In recent years, rigorous work is being done for the experimental realization of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Satish Kumar , Priya Malpani , Britant , Sandeep Mishra , Anirban Pathak

Quantum secret-sharing protocols involving N partners (NQSS) are key distribution protocols in which Alice encodes her key into $N-1$ qubits, in such a way that all the other partners must cooperate in order to retrieve the key. On these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Scarani , Nicolas Gisin

Quantum cryptography allows one to distribute a secret key between two remote parties using the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The well-known established paradigm for the quantum key distribution relies on the actual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tae-Gon Noh

The massive deployment of IoT devices being utilized by home automation, industrial and military scenarios demands for high security and privacy standards to be achieved through innovative solutions. This paper proposes KaFHCa, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Muhammad Usman , Simone Raponi , Marwa Qaraqe , Gabriele Oligeri

This article bridges the gap between two topics used in sharing an encryption key: (i) Key Consolidation, i.e., extracting two identical strings of bits from two information sources with similarities (common randomness). (ii) Quantum-safe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Amir K. Khandani

Quantum key distribution has emerged as a promising solution for constructing secure communication networks, offering information-theoretic security guaranteed by the principles of quantum mechanics. One of the most advanced quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Yizhi Huang , Zhenyu Du , Xiongfeng Ma

Phase correlations are an under-explored vulnerability in QKD. Here, we present an experimental and simulated characterization of correlations arising from electro-optic phase encoding, over repetition rates up to the GHz level. To mitigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Amita Gnanapandithan , Li Qian , Hoi-Kwong Lo

In recent years quantum information research has lead to the discovery of a number of remarkable new paradigms for information processing and communication. These developments include quantum cryptography schemes that offer unconditionally…

Channel-reciprocity based key generation (CRKG) has gained significant importance as it has recently been proposed as a potential lightweight security solution for IoT devices. However, the impact of the attacker's position in close range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Christan Zenger , Hendrik Vogt , Jan Zimmer , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar

A continuous key distribution scheme is proposed that relies on a pair of canonically conjugate quantum variables. It allows two remote parties to share a secret Gaussian key by encoding it into one of the two quadrature components of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. J. Cerf , M. Levy , G. Van Assche

Quantum communication aims to provide absolutely secure transmission of secret information. State-of-the-art methods encode symbols into single photons or coherent light with much less than one photon on average. For long distance…

A multi-user quantum key distribution protocol is proposed with single particles and the collective eavesdropping detection strategy on a star network. By utilizing this protocol, any two users of the network can accomplish quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Wei Huang , Qiao-Yan Wen , Bin Liu , Fei Gao

A wireless network of full-duplex nodes/users, using anti-eavesdropping channel estimation (ANECE) based on collaborative pilots, can yield a positive secure degree-of-freedom (SDoF) regardless of the number of antennas an eavesdropper may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingbo Hua , Qingpeng Liang , Md Saydur Rahman

We consider in this paper the information-theoretic secure key distribution problem over main and wire-tap noise channels with a public discussion in presence of an active adversary. In contrast to the solution proposed by ourselves for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-19 Viktor Yakovlev , Valery Korzhik , Guillermo Morales-Luna , Mihail Bakaev

In multi-source multi-terminal key-dissemination, here called ``key-cast,'' introduced by the authors in [ITW2022], network nodes hold independent random bits, and one seeks a communication scheme that allows all terminal nodes to share a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Michael Langberg , Michelle Effros

In this work we give a $(n,n)$-threshold protocol for sequential secret sharing of quantum information for the first time. By sequential secret sharing we refer to a situation where the dealer is not having all the secrets at the same time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 Maharshi Ray , Sourav Chatterjee , Indranil Chakrabarty

We propose a scheme that generalizes the loss scaling properties of twin-field or phase-matching quantum key distribution (QKD) related to a channel of transmission $\eta_{total}$ from $\sqrt{\eta_{total}}$ to $\sqrt[2n]{\eta_{total}}$ by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Frank Schmidt , Peter van Loock

Long-distance quantum communication requires quantum repeaters to overcome photon loss in optical fibers. Here we demonstrate a repeater node with two memory atoms in an optical cavity. Both atoms are individually and repeatedly entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Langenfeld , P. Thomas , O. Morin , G. Rempe

The basis of generating secret key from the common wireless channel at two communication parties is reciprocity. However, due to non-simultaneous measurements and unavoidable estimation error, bias always exists and key disagreement occurs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Xinrong Guan , Ning Ding , Yueming Cai , Weiwei Yang

In 2020, Kuang and Bettenburg proposed Quantum Public Key Distribution (QPKE) which utilized the randomized phase shift gate. Since then, it has been implemented both theoretically through simulations and experimentally over existing fiber…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Randy Kuang , Adrian Chan