Experiments of 10 Gbit/sec quantum stream cipher applicable to optical Ethernet and optical satellite link

Osamu Hirota; Kenichi Ohhata; Makoto Honda; Shigeto Akutsu; Yoshifumi Doi; Katsuyoshi Harasawa; Kiichi Yamashita

doi:10.1117/12.825589

26 August 2009 Experiments of 10 Gbit/sec quantum stream cipher applicable to optical Ethernet and optical satellite link

Osamu Hirota, Kenichi Ohhata, Makoto Honda, Shigeto Akutsu, Yoshifumi Doi, Katsuyoshi Harasawa, Kiichi Yamashita

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Proceedings Volume 7465, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging VII; 746509 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.825589
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The security issue for the next generation optical network which realizes Cloud Computing System Service with data center" is urgent problem. In such a network, the encryption by physical layer which provide super security and small delay should be employed. It must provide, however, very high speed encryption because the basic link is operated at 2.5 Gbit/sec or 10 Gbit/sec. The quantum stream cipher by Yuen-2000 protocol (Y-00) is a completely new type random cipher so called Gauss-Yuen random cipher, which can break the Shannon limit for the symmetric key cipher. We develop such a cipher which has good balance of the security, speed and cost performance. In SPIE conference on quantum communication and quantum imaging V, we reported a demonstration of 2.5 Gbit/sec system for the commercial link and proposed how to improve it to 10 Gbit/sec. This paper reports a demonstration of the Y-00 cipher system which works at 10 Gbit/sec. A transmission test in a laboratory is tried to get the basic data on what parameters are important to operate in the real commercial networks. In addition, we give some theoretical results on the security. It is clarified that the necessary condition to break the Shannon limit requires indeed the quantum phenomenon, and that the full information theoretically secure system is available in the satellite link application.

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Osamu Hirota, Kenichi Ohhata, Makoto Honda, Shigeto Akutsu, Yoshifumi Doi, Katsuyoshi Harasawa, and Kiichi Yamashita "Experiments of 10 Gbit/sec quantum stream cipher applicable to optical Ethernet and optical satellite link", Proc. SPIE 7465, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging VII, 746509 (26 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.825589

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