Reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution with an untrusted source

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab695d

Abstract Reference frame independent quantum key distribution (RFI-QKD) allows two legitimate parties to share the common secret keys with the drift of reference frames. In order to reduce the actual requirements of RFI-QKD protocol on light source and make it more suitable for practical applications, this paper gives a specific description of RFI-QKD protocol with an untrusted source and analyzes the practical security of this protocol based on the two-way “plug and play” structure commonly used in practical systems. In addition, we also investigate the performance of RFI-QKD with an untrusted source considering statistical fluctuations based on Chernoff bound. Using simulations, we compare the secret key rate of RFI-QKD with an untrusted source to RFI-QKD with trusted source. The results show that the performance of RFI-QKD with an untrusted source is similar to that of RFI-QKD with trusted source, and the finite data size clearly effects the performance of our protocol.

Keywords: quantum key distribution reference frame independent finite key untrusted source

Received: 11 October 2019
Revised: 23 December 2019
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PACS:	03.67.Dd	(Quantum cryptography and communication security)
	03.67.Hk	(Quantum communication)
	03.67.-a	(Quantum information)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB338002) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61505261, 61675235, 61605248, and 11304397).

Corresponding Authors: Wan-Su Bao
E-mail: bws@qiclab.cn

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Jia-Ji Li(李家骥), Yang Wang(汪洋), Hong-Wei Li(李宏伟), Wan-Su Bao(鲍皖苏) Reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution with an untrusted source 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 030303

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