Friday, August 10, 2012

1208.1995 (Kiyoshi Tamaki et al.)

Unconditional security of coherent-state-based differential phase shift
quantum key distribution protocol with block-wise phase randomization
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Kiyoshi Tamaki, Masato Koashi, Go Kato
We prove the unconditional security of coherent-state-based differential phase shift quantum key distribution protocol (DPSQKD) with block-wise phase randomization. Our proof is based on the conversion of DPSQKD to an equivalent entanglement-distillation protocol where the estimated phase error rate determines the amount of the privacy amplification. The generated final key has a contribution from events where the sender emits two or more photons, indicating the robustness of DPSQKD against photon-number-splitting attacks.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1995

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