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Security of Quantum Cryptography

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Quantum cryptography is one of the most mature area of quantum information. In the past few decades, active research has taken place in theoretical as well as implementation security of a practical quantum key distribution system. This resulted in hardening of theoretical proofs for a robust implementation against implementation loopholes and realistic attacks on QKD system. Particularly, many hacking strategies on the source, link, and detection system have been demonstrated. This paved way to the development of robust engineering of QKD system. The emphasis of this paper is twofold, we bring forth the newer security techniques paving way for information-theoretic security proofs leading to high QKD performance for market deployment, and discuss the recent quantum hacking on different QKD protocols. This has led to the strengthening of the QKD system and enabled active monitoring against possible eavesdropping activities.

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    Anindita Banerjee

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  1. Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Trivandrum, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  2. University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

    Gregorio Martinez Perez

  3. University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Ryan Ko

  4. Howard University, Washington, DC, USA

    Danda B. Rawat

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Banerjee, A. (2020). Security of Quantum Cryptography. In: Thampi, S., Martinez Perez, G., Ko, R., Rawat, D. (eds) Security in Computing and Communications. SSCC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1208. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4825-3_15

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