Quantum Keyless Privacy vs. Quantum Key Distribution for Space Links

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03407v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 01:33:40 GMT
• Title: Quantum Keyless Privacy vs. Quantum Key Distribution for Space Links
• Authors: A. Vazquez-Castro, D. Rusca and H. Zbinden
• Abstract summary: We study information theoretical security for space links between a satellite and a ground-station. We demonstrate information theoretical secure communication rates (positive keyless private capacity) over a classical-quantum wiretap channel.
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• Abstract: We study information theoretical security for space links between a satellite and a ground-station. Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a well established method for information theoretical secure communication, giving the eavesdropper unlimited access to the channel and technological resources only limited by the laws of quantum physics. But QKD for space links is extremely challenging, the achieved key rates are extremely low, and day-time operating impossible. However, eavesdropping on a channel in free-space without being noticed seems complicated, given the constraints imposed by orbital mechanics. If we also exclude eavesdropper's presence in a given area around the emitter and receiver, we can guarantee that he has only access to a fraction of the optical signal. In this setting, quantum keyless private (direct) communication based on the wiretap channel model is a valid alternative to provide information theoretical security. Like for QKD, we assume the legitimate users to be limited by state-of-the-art technology, while the potential eavesdropper is only limited by physical laws: physical measurement (Helstrom detector) and quantum electrodynamics (Holevo bound). Nevertheless, we demonstrate information theoretical secure communication rates (positive keyless private capacity) over a classical-quantum wiretap channel using on-off-keying of coherent states. We present numerical results for a setting equivalent to the recent experiments with the Micius satellite and compare them to the fundamental limit for the secret key rate of QKD. We obtain much higher rates compared with QKD with exclusion area of less than 13 meters for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Moreover, we show that the wiretap channel quantum keyless privacy is much less sensitive to noise and signal dynamics and daytime operation is possible.

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