Security Proof Against Collective Attacks for an Experimentally Feasible Semiquantum Key Distribution Protocol

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02127v4
• Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 17:59:33 GMT
• Title: Security Proof Against Collective Attacks for an Experimentally Feasible Semiquantum Key Distribution Protocol
• Authors: Walter O. Krawec, Rotem Liss, Tal Mor
• Abstract summary: Semiquantum key distribution (SQKD) allows two parties to create a shared secret key, even if one of these parties is classical. Most SQKD protocols suffer from severe practical security problems when implemented using photons. "Mirror protocol" is an experimentally feasible SQKD protocol overcoming those drawbacks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Semiquantum key distribution (SQKD) allows two parties (Alice and Bob) to create a shared secret key, even if one of these parties (say, Alice) is classical. However, most SQKD protocols suffer from severe practical security problems when implemented using photons. The recently developed "Mirror protocol" [Boyer, Katz, Liss, and Mor, Phys. Rev. A 96, 062335 (2017)] is an experimentally feasible SQKD protocol overcoming those drawbacks. The Mirror protocol was proven robust (namely, it was proven secure against a limited class of attacks including all noiseless attacks), but its security in case some noise is allowed (natural or due to eavesdropping) has not been proved yet. Here we prove security of the Mirror protocol against a wide class of quantum attacks (the "collective attacks"), and we evaluate the allowed noise threshold and the resulting key rate.

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