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Semi-device-independent security of one-way quantum key distribution

2011; American Physical Society; Volume: 84; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.84.010302

1538-4446

Marcin Pawłowski, Nicolas Brunner,

Quantum Mechanics and Applications

By testing nonlocality, the security of entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD) can be enhanced to being 'device-independent'. Here we ask whether such a strong form of security could also be established for one-way (prepare and measure) QKD. While fully device-independent security is impossible, we show that security can be guaranteed against individual attacks in a semi-device-independent scenario. In the latter, the devices used by the trusted parties are non-characterized, but the dimensionality of the quantum systems used in the protocol is assumed to be bounded. Our security proof relies on the analogies between one-way QKD, dimension witnesses and random-access codes.