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We present a finite-size security proof of the decoy-state BB84 QKD protocol against coherent attacks, using entropic uncertainty relations, for imperfect detectors. We apply this result to the case of detectors with imperfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Devashish Tupkary , Shlok Nahar , Pulkit Sinha , Norbert Lütkenhaus

We discuss the effect of sequential error injection on information leakage under a network code. We formulate a network code for the single transmission setting and the multiple transmission setting. Under this formulation, we show that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Masaki Owari , Go Kato , Ning Cai

Quantum communication protocols can be designed to detect eavesdropping attacks, something that classical technologies are unable to do since classical information can be replicated in a non-destructive manner. Eavesdropping detection is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Santanu Majhi , Debajyoti Bera

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over broadcast channels under the individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two legitimate receivers in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

According to the entropy accumulation theorem, proving the unconditional security of a device-independent quantum key distribution protocol reduces to deriving tradeoff functions, i.e., bounds on the single-round von Neumann entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Michele Masini , Stefano Pironio , Erik Woodhead

This letter studies information-theoretic security without knowing the eavesdropper's channel fading state. We present an alternative secrecy outage formulation to measure the probability that message transmissions fail to achieve perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay , Behrouz Maham , Are Hjorungnes

The secrecy rate region of wiretap interference channels with a multi-antenna passive eavesdropper is studied under receiver energy harvesting constraints. To stay operational in the network, the legitimate receivers demand energy alongside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ali Kariminezhad , Zohaib Hassan Awan , Hendrik Vogt , Aydin Sezgin

Information leakage in Wyner's wiretap channel model is usually defined as the mutual information between the secret message and the eavesdropper's received signal. We define a new quantity called "conditional information leakage given the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yutaka Jitsumatsu , Ukyo Michiwaki , Yasutada Oohama

Nowadays security in communication is increasingly important to the network communication because many categories of data are required restriction on authorization of access, modify, delete and insert. Quantum cryptography is one of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-06-23 Ajit Singh , Nidhi Sharma

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages to two receivers, while a wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal. This model is motivated by wireless communications, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-20 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

Detector blinding attacks have been proposed in the last few years, and they could potentially threaten the security of QKD systems. Even though no complete QKD system has been hacked yet, it is nevertheless important to consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Gaëtan Gras , Davide Rusca , Hugo Zbinden , Félix Bussières

Quantum cryptography studies the unconditional information security against an all-powerful eavesdropper in secret key distillation. However the assumption of an omnipotent eavesdropper is too strict for some realistic implementations. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ziwen Pan , Ivan B. Djordjevic

Secrecy in communication systems is measured herein by the distortion that an adversary incurs. The transmitter and receiver share secret key, which they use to encrypt communication and ensure distortion at an adversary. A model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Curt Schieler , Paul Cuff

Security of the Ekert protocol is proven against individual attacks where an eavesdropper is allowed to share any density matrix with the two communicating parties. The density matrix spans all of the photon number states of both receivers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Edo Waks , Assaf Zeevi , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

It is common in the study of secure multicast network coding in the presence of an eavesdropper that has access to $z$ network links, to assume that the source node is the only node that generates random keys. In this setting, the secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Debaditya Chaudhuri , Michael Langberg , Michelle Effros

This work addresses private communication with distributed systems in mind. We consider how to best use secret key resources and communication to transmit signals across a system so that an eavesdropper is least capable to act on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Cuff

We consider the problem of secret key extraction when $n$ honest parties and an eavesdropper share correlated information. We present a family of probability distributions and give the full characterization of its distillation properties.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Lluis Masanes , Antonio Acin

The security of quantum key distribution has traditionally been analyzed in either the asymptotic or non-asymptotic regimes. In this paper, we provide a bridge between these two regimes, by determining second-order coding rates for key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Sumeet Khatri , Eneet Kaur , Saikat Guha , Mark M. Wilde

In this study, we investigate the protection offered by federated learning algorithms against eavesdropping adversaries. In our model, the adversary is capable of intercepting model updates transmitted from clients to the server, enabling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Dipankar Maity , Kushal Chakrabarti

To guarantee the security of uniform random numbers generated by a quantum random number generator, we study secure extraction of uniform random numbers when the environment of a given quantum state is controlled by the third party, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Masahito Hayashi , Huangjun Zhu
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