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Parallel Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Published
Author(s)
Rahul Jain, Carl Miller, Yaoyun Shi
Abstract
A prominent application of quantum cryptography is the distribution of cryptographic keys that are provably secure. Such security proofs were extended by Vazirani and Vidick (Physical Review Letters, 113, 140501, 2014) to the device-independent (DI) scenario, where the users do not need to trust the integrity of the underlying quantum devices. The protocols analyzed by them and by subsequent authors all require a sequential execution of N multiplayer games, where N is the security parameter. In this work, we prove the security of a protocol where all games are executed in parallel. Besides decreasing the number of time-steps necessary for key generation, this result reduces the security requirements for DI-QKD by allowing arbitrary information leakage of each user's inputs within his or her lab. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first parallel security proof for a fully device-independent QKD protocol. Our protocol tolerates a constant level of device imprecision and achieves a linear key rate.
Jain, R.
, Miller, C.
and Shi, Y.
(2020),
Parallel Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2020.2986740, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=923017
(Accessed October 10, 2025)