Stefano Pironio, Lluis Masanes, Anthony Leverrier, Antonio Acin
Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (DIQKD) is a formalism that supersedes traditional quantum key distribution, as its security does not rely on any detailed modelling of the internal working of the devices. This strong form of security is possible only using devices producing correlations that violate a Bell inequality. Full security proofs of DIQKD have been recently reported, but they tolerate zero or small amounts of noise and are restricted to protocols based on specific Bell inequalities. Here, we provide a security proof of DIQKD that is both more efficient and noise resistant, and also more general as it applies to protocols based on arbitrary Bell inequalities and can be adapted to cover supra-quantum eavesdroppers limited by the no-signalling principle only. The price we pay, however, is the extra assumption that the adversary does not have a long-term quantum memory.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1402
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