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DNSSEC Test and Measurement Tools: Secure Zone Integrity Tester v0.9.3, Zone Monitoring Tool v0.9, dns Trace : traffic statistics collection tool, querysim : DNS query workload monitoring tool

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Scott W. Rose, Darrin J. Santay, Douglas Montgomery, Kevin L. Mills, Stephen Quirolgico, M Ramaswamy

Abstract

We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the bit-stream, generation of random numbers and processing of the sifting algorithm are all handled by a pair of custom data handling circuit boards. As a complete system using a clock rate of 1.25 Gbit/s, it produces sifted keys at a rate of 1.1 Mb/s with an error rate lower than 1.3% while operating at a transmission rate of 312.5 Mbit/s and a mean photon number 5 = 0.1. With a number of proposed improvements this system has a potential for a higher key rate without an elevated error rate.
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Advanced Network Technologies Division
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Rose, S. , Santay, D. , Montgomery, D. , Mills, K. , Quirolgico, S. and Ramaswamy, M. (2005), DNSSEC Test and Measurement Tools: Secure Zone Integrity Tester v0.9.3, Zone Monitoring Tool v0.9, dns Trace : traffic statistics collection tool, querysim : DNS query workload monitoring tool, Advanced Network Technologies Division, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=150162 (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created September 30, 2005, Updated October 12, 2021