High-Speed Implementation of Length-Compatible Privacy Amplification in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Privacy amplification is an indispensable step in postprocessing of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), which is used to distill unconditional secure keys from identical corrected keys between two distant legal parties. The processing speed of privacy amplification has a significa...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiangyu Wang, Yichen Zhang, Song Yu, Hong Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8333705/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Privacy amplification is an indispensable step in postprocessing of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), which is used to distill unconditional secure keys from identical corrected keys between two distant legal parties. The processing speed of privacy amplification has a significant effect on the secret key rate of a CV-QKD system. We report the high-speed parallel implementation of the length-compatible privacy amplification algorithm based on a graphic processing unit. The length-compatible algorithm is used to satisfy the security requirements of privacy amplification at different transmission distances when considering finite-size effect. We achieve the speed of privacy amplification over 1 Gb/s at arbitrary input length and the speed is one to two orders of magnitude faster than previous demonstrations, which supports the high-speed real-time CV-QKD system and ensures the security of privacy amplification.
ISSN:1943-0655