Advantage of the key relay protocol over secure network coding
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| author | Kato, Go Fujiwara, Mikio Tsurumaru, Toyohiro |
| author_facet | Kato, Go Fujiwara, Mikio Tsurumaru, Toyohiro |
| contents | The key relay protocol (KRP) plays an important role in improving the performance and the security of quantum key distribution (QKD) networks. On the other hand, there is also an existing research field called secure network coding (SNC), which has similar goal and structure. We here analyze differences and similarities between the KRP and SNC rigorously. We found, rather surprisingly, that there is a definite gap in security between the KRP and SNC; that is, certain KRPs achieve better security than any SNC schemes on the same graph. We also found that this gap can be closed if we generalize the notion of SNC by adding free public channels; that is, KRPs are equivalent to SNC schemes augmented with free public channels. |
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| publishDate | 2021 |
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| spellingShingle | Advantage of the key relay protocol over secure network coding Kato, Go Fujiwara, Mikio Tsurumaru, Toyohiro Information Theory Quantum Physics The key relay protocol (KRP) plays an important role in improving the performance and the security of quantum key distribution (QKD) networks. On the other hand, there is also an existing research field called secure network coding (SNC), which has similar goal and structure. We here analyze differences and similarities between the KRP and SNC rigorously. We found, rather surprisingly, that there is a definite gap in security between the KRP and SNC; that is, certain KRPs achieve better security than any SNC schemes on the same graph. We also found that this gap can be closed if we generalize the notion of SNC by adding free public channels; that is, KRPs are equivalent to SNC schemes augmented with free public channels. |
| title | Advantage of the key relay protocol over secure network coding |
| topic | Information Theory Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13328 |