M.Sc. Candidate: Ramy Tannous
Supervisor: Thomas Jennewein
The thesis has been deposited in the Faculty of Science Graduate Office, PHY 2013, and is available for perusal.
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is able to achieve information-theoretic security in principle. However, in practice, imperfect devices threaten the security of quantum cryptographic systems. As a promising countermeasure against practical attacks, measurement-device-independent (MDI) QKD is immune to all detector side-channel attacks. Nevertheless, there are some limitations of the MDI QKD protocol. To overcome the technical limitations of MDI QKD, I scrutinized and evaluated other two countermeasures against imperfect detections.
Emergence of quantum information science has led to a paradigm shift in communication systems. In the past couple of decades, quantum information processing tasks like quantum cryptography, dense coding, quantum teleportation etc. have been shown to have advantages over their classical counterparts and have also been successfully implemented in laboratories.
Emergence of quantum information science has led to a paradigm shift in communication systems. In the past couple of decades, quantum information processing tasks like quantum cryptography, dense coding, quantum teleportation etc. have been shown to have advantages over their classical counterparts and have also been successfully implemented in laboratories.
Jie Lin of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is presenting his thesis:
Security proofs for quantum key distribution protocols by numerical approaches
Jie is supervised by IQC faculty member Norbert Lütkenhaus.
Christopher Pugh of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is presenting his thesis:
Free Space Quantum Key Distribution to Moving Platforms
Christopher is supervised by IQC faculty member Thomas Jennewein.
We report a quantum hacking strategy on a Continuous-Variable (CV) Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system by inserting an external light. In the implementations of CV QKD systems, transmitting openly local oscillator pulses is a potential vulnerability for an eavesdropper to launch side channel attacks. In this work, other than targeting on local oscillator, we concern two imperfections in a balanced homodyne detector used in CV QKD system: the imbalance in the beam splitter and the finite linear detection limit.