5 papers
Recovery-Induced Erasure Attack on QKD Systems
Hashir Kuniyil, Asad Ali, Syed M. Arslan +3
Detector dead time is typically treated as a fixed parameter in quantum key distribution (QKD) security analyses. In practice, however, the effective recovery time of single-photon…
Optimizing Continuous-Wave-Pumped Entanglement-based QKD in Noisy Environments
Hashir Kuniyil, Saif Al-Kuwari, Asad Ali +2
Quantum key distribution (QKD) has emerged as a promising solution to protect current cryptographic systems against the threat of quantum computers. As QKD transitions from laborat…
Noise Resilient 1SDIQKD for Practical Quantum Networks
Syed M Arslan, Muhammad T Rahim, Asad Ali +2
One-sided device-independent quantum key distribution (1SDI-QKD) offers a practical middle ground between fully device-independent protocols and standard QKD, achieving security wi…
Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution: Protocols, Security, and Open Problems
Syed M. Arslan, Syed Shahmir, Noureldin Mohammad +2
Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution (TF-QKD) has emerged as a potential protocol for long distance secure communication, overcoming the rate-distance limitations of conventional qu…
Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution: Protocols, Quantum Games, and Security
Syed M. Arslan, Saif Al-Kuwari, M. T. Rahim +1
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is based on the laws of quantum mechanics to enable provably secure communication. Despite its theoretical security promise, practical QKD systems ar…