Employing covert communications-based information reconciliation and multiple spatial modes to polarization entanglement QKD
John Gariano, Ivan B. Djordjevic
2019
Optics Letters
This work presents the concept of using a covert classical communication channel to transmit the parity bits between Alice and Bob without Eve gaining information of the transmitted parity bits. ...
The information that is leaked to an eavesdropper during the error reconciliation phase of QKD protocols limits the maximum bit error rate of a system. ...
With a classical public channel, the maximum BER was 0.11, while with a covert communication channel, the maximum BER is 0.5, and the practical limitation will be the error correction capability of the ...
doi:10.1364/ol.44.000687
fatcat:pzquagqgszcudm47w7tfxtukfy