In this paper, the systematisation and classification of modern quantum technologies of information security against cyber-terrorist attack are carried out. The characteristic of the basic directions of quantum cryptography from the viewpoint of the quantum technologies used is given. A qualitative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of concrete quantum protocols is made. The current s...

We present an extension of the first proof for the unconditional security of the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol which was given by Mayers. We remove the constraint that a perfect BB84 quantum source is required and the proof given here covers a range of practical quantum sources. Nothing is assumed about the detector except that the efficiency with which signals are detected is basis in...

Shihan Sajeed,1,2,* Igor Radchenko,3 Sarah Kaiser,1,4 Jean-Philippe Bourgoin,1,4 Anna Pappa,5 Laurent Monat,6 Matthieu Legré,6 and Vadim Makarov1,4,2 1Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada 3General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences...

The security of quantum key distribution with sub-Poisson light sources is investigated. It is shown that a quantitative analysis of the security of such sources requires only two measured values, the efficiency and second-order correlation. These two numbers represent figures of merit, which characterize the performance of such light sources. We show that sub-Poisson light sources can offer si...

We propose the adaptive multicarrier quadrature division–multiuser quadrature allocation (AMQD-MQA) multiple access technique for continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD). The MQA scheme is based on the AMQD modulation, which granulates the inputs of the users into Gaussian subcarrier continuous-variables (CVs). The subcarrier coherent states formulate Gaussian sub-channels from the...

We introduce the multidimensional manifold extraction for multicarrier continuousvariable (CV) quantum key distribution (QKD). The manifold extraction utilizes the resources that are injected into the transmission by the additional degrees of freedom of the multicarrier modulation. We demonstrate the results through the AMQD (adaptive multicarrier quadrature division) scheme, which granulates t...

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks are of much interest due to their capacity of providing extremely high security keys to network participants. Most QKD network studies so far focus on trusted models where all the network nodes are assumed to be perfectly secured. This restricts QKD networks to be small. In this paper, we first develop a novel model dedicated to large-scale QKD networks, ...

In 2005, trace distance between an ideal quantum state to be distributed and an actually distributed quantum state was introduced as a valid security measure of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) by R. Renner et al., then it has been perceived that the trace can be interpreted as a maximum failure probability of QKD. While such a perspective has been widely accepted, H. P. Yuen and O. Hirota have b...

The Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol BB84 has been proven secure against several important types of attacks: the collective attacks and the joint attacks. Here we analyze the security of a modified BB84 protocol, for which information is sent only in the z basis while testing is done in both the z and the x bases, against collective attacks. The proof follows the framework of a previous ...