Affiliation:
1. Terra Quantum AG, Kronhausstrasse 25, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
Abstract
Security of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols rely solely on quantum physics laws, namely, on the impossibility to distinguish between non-orthogonal quantum states with absolute certainty. Due to this, a potential eavesdropper cannot extract full information from the states stored in their quantum memory after an attack despite knowing all the information disclosed during classical post-processing stages of QKD. Here, we introduce the idea of encrypting classical communication related to error-correction in order to decrease the amount of information available to the eavesdropper and hence improve the performance of quantum key distribution protocols. We analyze the applicability of the method in the context of additional assumptions concerning the eavesdropper’s quantum memory coherence time and discuss the similarity of our proposition and the quantum data locking (QDL) technique.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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