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Security Enhancement of Quantum Noise Stream Cipher Based on Probabilistic Constellation Shaping

Cryptography and Security 2023-05-17 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a QNSC pre-coding scheme based on probabilistic shaping of the basis, to reduce the probability of ciphertext bits that are easier to be intercepted. Experiment results show this scheme can improve the security performance by 100% in terms of Eve's cipher text BER.

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@article{arxiv.2305.09152,
  title  = {Security Enhancement of Quantum Noise Stream Cipher Based on Probabilistic Constellation Shaping},
  author = {Sheng Liu and Shuang Wei and Wei Wang and Chao Lei and Tianhe Liu and Yajie Li and Yunbo Li and Dawei Ge and Dong Wang and Yongli Zhao and Dechao Zhang and Han Li and Jie Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09152},
  year   = {2023}
}
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