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Security Analysis Oriented Physical Components Modeling in Quantum Key Distribution

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Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec 2016)

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Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), based on fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, plays an irreplaceable role in national defense, financial and government affairs. Security analysis of QKD system is of great importance. However, existing studies on modeling QKD system are theory analysis based. In this paper, we propose a Simulation System of Physical Components (SSPC) in QKD system which modeling the three key modules: single photon source, quantum channel and single photon detector, it could generate the simulated key resemble to real QKD physical system and its parameters of the physical components are configurable. Therefore, solution can be deployed in different QKD physical systems.

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This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 61202488, Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of cloud computing and Big Data (No. YD16801,YD16505.), and the outstanding young scholar funding of NUDT.

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  1. College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China

    Xilong Mao, Yan Li, Yan Peng & Baokang Zhao

  2. Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex Systems, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Baokang Zhao

  3. Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of Cloud Computing and Big Data, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Baokang Zhao

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  2. Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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Mao, X., Li, Y., Peng, Y., Zhao, B. (2018). Security Analysis Oriented Physical Components Modeling in Quantum Key Distribution. In: You, I., Leu, FY., Chen, HC., Kotenko, I. (eds) Mobile Internet Security. MobiSec 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 797. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7850-7_14

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