TU2.R2.4

Secure Communication with Unreliable Entanglement Assistance

Meir Lederman, Uzi Pereg, Technion, Israel

Session:
Quantum Shannon Theory 1

Track:
6: Quantum Information and Coding Theory

Location:
Ypsilon I-II-III

Presentation Time:
Tue, 9 Jul, 12:30 - 12:50

Session Chair:
Uzi Pereg, Technion
Abstract
Secure communication is considered with unreliable entanglement assistance, where the adversary may intercept the legitimate receiver's entanglement resource before communication takes place. The communication setting of unreliable assistance, without security aspects, was originally motivated by the extreme photon loss in practical communication systems. The operational principle is to adapt the transmission rate to the availability of entanglement assistance, without resorting to feedback and repetition. Here, we require secrecy as well. An achievable secrecy rate region is derived for general quantum wiretap channels, and a multi-letter secrecy capacity formula for the special class of degraded channels.
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