https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-00214-5
Fiber and free-space practical decoy state QKD for both BB84 and SARG04 protocols
1
Department of Computational and Theoretical Sciences, Faculty of Science, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2
Information Security Cluster, MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, Malaysia
Corresponding author: a sellami2003@hotmail.com
Received:
5
January
2010
Revised:
3
March
2010
Published online:
30
August
2010
Fiber and free-space practical decoy state quantum key distribution has been simulated for both BB84 and SARG04 protocols. The numerical simulation has shown that the fiber based QKD and free space QKD systems using the proposed method for BB84 are able to achieve both a higher secret key rate and greater secure distance than that of SARG04.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2010