Scientific Reports (Jul 2023)

Composable security of CV-MDI-QKD with secret key rate and data processing

  • Panagiotis Papanastasiou,
  • Alexander G. Mountogiannakis,
  • Stefano Pirandola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37699-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Abstract We provide a rigorous security proof of continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution which incorporates finite-size effects and composable terms. In order to use realistic and optimized parameters and be able to derive results close to experimental expectations, we run protocol simulations supported by a Python library, including all the protocol operations, from simulating the quantum communication till the extraction of the final key.