Blind reconciliation

Information reconciliation is a crucial procedure in the classical post-processing of quantum key distribution (QKD). Poor reconciliation efficiency, revealing more information than strictly needed, may compromise the maximum attainable distance, while poor performance of the algorithm limits the pr...

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Autores: Martínez Mateo, Jesús, Elkouss, David, Martín, Vicente
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44453
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44453
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:530.145
004
Quantum key distribution
Information reconciliation
Low-density parity-check codes
Rate-compatible
Interactive reconciliation
Short-length codes
Teoría de los quanta
Informática (Informática)
2210.23 Teoría Cuántica
1203.17 Informática
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spelling Blind reconciliationMartínez Mateo, JesúsElkouss, DavidMartín, Vicente530.145004Quantum key distributionInformation reconciliationLow-density parity-check codesRate-compatibleInteractive reconciliationShort-length codesTeoría de los quantaInformática (Informática)2210.23 Teoría Cuántica1203.17 InformáticaInformation reconciliation is a crucial procedure in the classical post-processing of quantum key distribution (QKD). Poor reconciliation efficiency, revealing more information than strictly needed, may compromise the maximum attainable distance, while poor performance of the algorithm limits the practical throughput in a QKD device. Historically, reconciliation has been mainly done using close to minimal information disclosure but heavily interactive procedures, like Cascade, or using less efficient but also less interactive —just one message is exchanged— procedures, like the ones based in low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The price to pay in the LDPC case is that good efficiency is only attained for very long codes and in a very narrow range centered around the quantum bit error rate (QBER) that the code was designed to reconcile, thus forcing to have several codes if a broad range of QBER needs to be catered for. Real world implementations of these methods are thus very demanding, either on computational or communication resources or both, to the extent that the last generation of GHz clocked QKD systems are finding a bottleneck in the classical part. In order to produce compact, high performance and reliable QKD systems it would be highly desirable to remove these problems. Here we analyse the use of short-length LDPC codes in the information reconciliation context using a low interactivity, blind, protocol that avoids an a priori error rate estimation. We demonstrate that 2 × 10³ bits length LDPC codes are suitable for blind reconciliation. Such codes are of high interest in practice, since they can be used for hardware implementations with very high throughput.Rinton Press, IncorporatedUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20122012-09-0120122012-09-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44453reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/444532026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Blind reconciliation
title Blind reconciliation
spellingShingle Blind reconciliation
Martínez Mateo, Jesús
530.145
004
Quantum key distribution
Information reconciliation
Low-density parity-check codes
Rate-compatible
Interactive reconciliation
Short-length codes
Teoría de los quanta
Informática (Informática)
2210.23 Teoría Cuántica
1203.17 Informática
title_short Blind reconciliation
title_full Blind reconciliation
title_fullStr Blind reconciliation
title_full_unstemmed Blind reconciliation
title_sort Blind reconciliation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Martínez Mateo, Jesús
Elkouss, David
Martín, Vicente
author Martínez Mateo, Jesús
author_facet Martínez Mateo, Jesús
Elkouss, David
Martín, Vicente
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Martín, Vicente
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 530.145
004
Quantum key distribution
Information reconciliation
Low-density parity-check codes
Rate-compatible
Interactive reconciliation
Short-length codes
Teoría de los quanta
Informática (Informática)
2210.23 Teoría Cuántica
1203.17 Informática
topic 530.145
004
Quantum key distribution
Information reconciliation
Low-density parity-check codes
Rate-compatible
Interactive reconciliation
Short-length codes
Teoría de los quanta
Informática (Informática)
2210.23 Teoría Cuántica
1203.17 Informática
description Information reconciliation is a crucial procedure in the classical post-processing of quantum key distribution (QKD). Poor reconciliation efficiency, revealing more information than strictly needed, may compromise the maximum attainable distance, while poor performance of the algorithm limits the practical throughput in a QKD device. Historically, reconciliation has been mainly done using close to minimal information disclosure but heavily interactive procedures, like Cascade, or using less efficient but also less interactive —just one message is exchanged— procedures, like the ones based in low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The price to pay in the LDPC case is that good efficiency is only attained for very long codes and in a very narrow range centered around the quantum bit error rate (QBER) that the code was designed to reconcile, thus forcing to have several codes if a broad range of QBER needs to be catered for. Real world implementations of these methods are thus very demanding, either on computational or communication resources or both, to the extent that the last generation of GHz clocked QKD systems are finding a bottleneck in the classical part. In order to produce compact, high performance and reliable QKD systems it would be highly desirable to remove these problems. Here we analyse the use of short-length LDPC codes in the information reconciliation context using a low interactivity, blind, protocol that avoids an a priori error rate estimation. We demonstrate that 2 × 10³ bits length LDPC codes are suitable for blind reconciliation. Such codes are of high interest in practice, since they can be used for hardware implementations with very high throughput.
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