Construction of a Shared Secret Key Using Continuous Variables

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2003 IEEE Information Theory Workshop

In Proceedings of 2003 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2003) (2003)
Technical report #497, Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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Motivated by recent advances in quantum cryptography with continuous variables, we study the problem of extracting a shared digital secret key from two correlated real values. Alice has access to a real value X_A, and Bob to another value X_B such that I(X_A;X_B)>0. They wish to convert their values into a shared secret digital information while leaking as little information as possible to Eve. We show how the problem can be decomposed in two subproblems known in other contexts. The first is the design of a quantizer that maximizes a mutual information criterion, the second is known as coding with side information.

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