Attacking a high-dimensional quantum key distribution system with wavelength-dependent beam splitter

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab343c

Abstract

The unconditional security of quantum key distribution (QKD) can be guaranteed by the nature of quantum physics. Compared with the traditional two-dimensional BB84 QKD protocol, high-dimensional quantum key distribution (HD-QKD) can be applied to generate much more secret key. Nonetheless, practical imperfections in realistic systems can be exploited by the third party to eavesdrop the secret key. The practical beam splitter has a correlation with wavelength, where different wavelengths have different coupling ratios. Using this property, we propose a wavelength-dependent attack towards time-bin high-dimensional QKD system. What is more, we demonstrate that this attacking protocol can be applied to arbitrary d-dimensional QKD system, and higher-dimensional QKD system is more vulnerable to this attacking strategy.

Keywords: high-dimensional quantum key distribution beam splitter wavelength attack

Received: 16 May 2019
Revised: 18 June 2019
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PACS:	03.67.Dd	(Quantum cryptography and communication security)
	03.67.Hk	(Quantum communication)

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Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0302600) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61675235).

Corresponding Authors: Hong-Wei Li, Hong-Wei Li
E-mail: lihow@ustc.edu.cn;bws@qiclab.cn

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Ge-Hai Du(杜舸海), Hong-Wei Li(李宏伟), Yang Wang(汪洋), Wan-Su Bao(鲍皖苏) Attacking a high-dimensional quantum key distribution system with wavelength-dependent beam splitter 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 090301

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