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Performance of a reconciliation method operating on a discreet quantum key distribution system

Cryptography and Security 2020-02-20 v1

Abstract

Reconciliation is a mechanism allowing to weed out the discrepancies between two correlated variables. It has great role in every Quantum Key Distribution protocol where the key has to be transmitted through a noisy channel or as in our case of study in presence of an eavesdropping. In this paper, we show that for discrete-variable QKD protocols, this problem can be advantageously solved with Turbo codes. In particular, we demonstrate that our method leads to a significant improvement of Bit Error Rate, may divide it by three in presence of a eavesdropper even with great eavesdropping capability.

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@article{arxiv.2002.07841,
  title  = {Performance of a reconciliation method operating on a discreet quantum key distribution system},
  author = {Nedra Benletaief and Houria Rezig and Ammar Bouallegue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07841},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

4 pages, 8 figures, conference. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2002.04887, arXiv:2002.07778; text overlap with arXiv:0901.2140 by other authors

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