Title :
Efficiency of Winnow Protocol in Secret Key Reconciliation
Author :
Yan, Hao ; Peng, Xiang ; Lin, Xiaxiang ; Jiang, Wei ; Liu, Tian ; Guo, Hong
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of High Confidence Software Technol., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
fDate :
March 31 2009-April 2 2009
Abstract :
Secret key reconciliation is an important step in the process of quantum key distribution. In the protocols used for reconciliation, Winnow has been proved a fast and efficient one. In this paper, we analyze the efficiency of Winnow in terms of amount of leaked information in details. We give the optimal block size in Winnow theoretically and experimentally for different error rate.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; quantum cryptography; optimal block size; quantum key distribution; secret key reconciliation; winnow protocol; Communication system software; Computer science; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Error analysis; Error correction; Error correction codes; Information analysis; Laboratories; Quantum computing; Information Reconciliation; Quantum Key Distribution; Winnow;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2009 WRI World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3507-4
DOI :
10.1109/CSIE.2009.383
