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In 2000, an attractive new quantum cryptography was discovered by H.P.Yuen based on quantum communication theory. It is applicable to direct encryption, for example quantum stream cipher based on Yuen protocol(Y-00), with high speeds and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Osamu Hirota , Kentaro Kato , Masaki Sohma , Tsuyoshi S. Usuda , Katsuyoshi Harasawa

This paper presents the security analysis on the quantum stream cipher so called Yuen-2000 protocol (or $\alpha\eta$ scheme) against the fast correlation attack, the typical attack on stream ciphers. Although a very simple experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Osamu Hirota , Kaoru Kurosawa

In 2000, an attractive new quantum cryptography was discovered by H.P.Yuen, which can realize secure communication with high speeds and at long distance by conventional optical devices. Recently, a criticism of the Yuen protocol, so called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Osamu Hirota

This paper is dedicated to the late Professor H.P. Yuen in commemoration to our 50-year friendship. He invented the concept of quantum stream cipher. It is designed based on a completely different concept from conventional ciphers. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Osamu Hirota

Although quantum key distribution is regarded as promising secure communication, security of Y00 protocol proposed by Yuen in 2000 for the affinity to conventional optical communication is not well-understood yet; its security has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Takehisa Iwakoshi

What obstructs the realization of useful quantum cryptography is single photon scheme, or entanglement which is not applicable to the current infrastructure of optical communication network. We are concerned with the following question: Can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Osamu Hirota , Kentaro Kato , Masaki Sohma , Masaru Fuse

New quantum cryptography, often called Y-00 protocol, has much higher performance than the conventional quantum cryptographies. It seems that the conventional quantum cryptographic attacks are inefficient at Y-00 protocol as its security is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tsuyoshi Nishioka , Toshio Hasegawa , Hirokazu Ishizuka , Kentaro Imafuku , Hideki Imai

In this report, we simulate practical feature of Yuen-Kim protocol for quantum key distribution with unconditional secure. In order to demonstrate them experimentally by intensity modulation/direct detection(IMDD) optical fiber…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Hirota , K. Kato , M. Sohma

This paper critically analyzes the Y00 protocol, a quantum noise-based stream cipher proposed to enhance classical cryptographic methods through quantum mechanical properties. Despite its promise, we reveal a structural vulnerability that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Kentaro Imafuku

The previous work showed that the Y00 protocol could stay secure with the eavesdropper's guessing probability on the secret keys being strictly less than one under an unlimitedly long known-plaintext attack with quantum memory. However, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Takehisa Iwakoshi

We demonstrate a 4,294,967,296-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) based Y-00 quantum stream cipher system carrying 160-Gb/s 16-QAM signal transmitted over 320-km SSMF. The ultra-dense QAM cipher template is realized by an integrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Xi Chen , Ken Tanizawa , Peter Winzer , Po Dong , Junho Cho , Fumio Futami , Kentaro Kato , Argishti Melikyan , Kw Kim

We demonstrate high-rate randomized data-encryption through optical fibers using the inherent quantum-measurement noise of coherent states of light. Specifically, we demonstrate 650Mbps data encryption through a 10Gbps data-bearing, in-line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Corndorf , Chuang Liang , Gerg S. Kanter , Prem Kumar , Horace P. Yuen

It is claimed in Phys. Lett. A by T. Nishioka et. al. 327 (2004) 28-32, that the security of Y-00 is equivalent to that of a classical stream cipher. In this paper it is shown that the claim is false in either the use of Y-00 for direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen , Prem Kumar , Eric Corndorf , Ranjith Nair

This research note suggests a new way to realize a high speed direct encryption based on quantum detection theory. The conventional cipher is designed by a mathematical algorithm and its security is evaluated by the complexity of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Osamu Hirota

Nishioka et al claim in [1], elaborating on their earlier paper [2], that the direct encryption scheme called Y-00 [3,4] is equivalent to a classical non-random additive stream cipher, and thus offers no more security than the latter. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ranjith Nair , Horace P. Yuen , Eric Corndorf , Prem Kumar

We examine security of a protocol on cryptographic key distribution via classical noise proposed by Yuen and Kim (Phys. Lett. A 241 135 (1998)). Theoretical and experimental analysis in terms of the secure key distribution rate shows that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Akihisa Tomita , Osamu Hirota

This paper is the part-II of the previous paper and introduces the world of Yuen's concept. In the theory of cryptology, the Shannon impossibility theorem states that the upper bound of the security of a plaintext against a ciphertext-only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Osamu Hirota

In our previous work, it was demonstrated that the attacker could not pin-down the correct keys to start the Y00 protocol with a probability of one under the assistance of unlimitedly long known-plaintext attacks and optimal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Takehisa Iwakoshi

We present and demonstrate a new protocol for practical quantum cryptography, tailored for an implementation with weak coherent pulses to obtain a high key generation rate. The key is obtained by a simple time-of-arrival measurement on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Damien Stucki , Nicolas Brunner , Nicolas Gisin , Valerio Scarani , Hugo Zbinden

We prove the security of a high-capacity quantum key distribution protocol over noisy channels. By using entanglement purification protocol, we construct a modified version of the protocol in which we separate it into two consecutive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Kai Wen , Gui Lu Long
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