Abstract
Quantum key distribution (QKD) comprises technologies that use quantum mechanical effects to distribute private keys to distant partners. The goals of the present document are as follows:
- to make precise the nature of the security claim, including its statistical component;
- to list meaningful restrictions of adversarial action;
- to clarify the difference between security claim of a protocol (based on models) and the security claim of its implementation;
- to carefully list all the usual components of a QKD protocol with their critical characterizations.
General Information
Publication date: 11 January 2012
Working groups: https://www.etsi.org/technologies/quantum-key-distribution
ICT rolling plan topic: Quantum Computing
SDO: ETSI
Latest publishied version: V1.1.1 (2010-12)