Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-02-20
Phys. Rev. A, 77, 052327 (2008)
Physics
Quantum Physics
31 pages, 6 figures, REVTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.052327
The security of a standard bi-directional "plug & play" quantum key distribution (QKD) system has been an open question for a long time. This is mainly because its source is equivalently controlled by an eavesdropper, which means the source is unknown and untrusted. Qualitative discussion on this subject has been made previously. In this paper, we present the first quantitative security analysis on a general class of QKD protocols whose sources are unknown and untrusted. The securities of standard BB84 protocol, weak+vacuum decoy state protocol, and one-decoy decoy state protocol, with unknown and untrusted sources are rigorously proved. We derive rigorous lower bounds to the secure key generation rates of the above three protocols. Our numerical simulation results show that QKD with an untrusted source gives a key generation rate that is close to that with a trusted source.
Lo Hoi-Kwong
Qi Bing
Zhao Yi
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