A hybrid quantum key distribution protocol based on extended unitary operations and fountain codes

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• 作者：Hong Lai (1) (2)
  Liyin Xue (3)
  Mehmet A. Orgun (2)
  Jinghua Xiao (1)
  Josef Pieprzyk (4)
  
  1. School of Science ; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications ; Beijing ; 100876 ; China
  2. Department of Computing ; Macquarie University ; Sydney ; NSW ; 2109 ; Australia
  3. Corporate Analytics ; The Australian Taxation Office ; Sydney ; NSW ; 2000 ; Australia
  4. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ; Queensland University of Technology ; Brisbane ; QLD ; 4000 ; Australia
  
• 关键词：Extended unitary operations ; Fountain codes ; Eavesdropping detection ; Authentication ; EPR pairs ; Key distribution protocols
• 刊名：Quantum Information Processing
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：14
• 期：2
• 页码：697-713
• 全文大小：462 KB
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Physics
  Mathematics
  Engineering, general
  Computer Science, general
  Characterization and Evaluation Materials
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1332

文摘

In 1984, Bennett and Brassard designed the first quantum key distribution protocol, whose security is based on quantum indeterminacy. Since then, there has been growing research activities, aiming in designing new, more efficient and secure key distribution protocols. The work presents a novel hybrid quantum key distribution protocol. The key distribution is derived from both quantum and classical data. This is why it is called hybrid. The protocol applies extended unitary operations derived from four basic unitary operations and distributed fountain codes. Compared to other protocols published so far, the new one is more secure (provides authentication of parties and detection of eavesdropping) and efficient. Moreover, our protocol still works over noisy and lossy channels.