Expeditious reconciliation for practical quantum key distribution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5436, Issue , 2004, Pages 28-35

  Nakassis, Anastase ^a   Bienfang, Joshua ^a   Williams, Carl ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade; Forward Error Correction; Quantum Cryptography; Quantum Key Distribution; Reconciliation

Indexed keywords

CASCADE; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD); RECONCILIATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 2942727915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.541698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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