• Implement classical link authentication

This paper covers security concerns

The Team QuackAttack QKD-strap includes a QNE harness for demonstrating the implementation of BBM'92 using NetQASM

Contained is alice and bob implementing BBM'92 QKD protocol, within parameters for testing.

As configured, 50 Qubits are exchanged, QBER is computed, first 16 valid Qubits comprise the key (as required).

To run: Install QNE, NetQASM

• Requires Linux, Mac OSX, Windows Subsystem for Linux

• Supports Python3 <=3.9

• Establish conda environment using conda create qkd-env python=3.9

• Test that QNE and NetQASM are availble

git clone https://github.com/meltyness/qkd-strap

cd qkd-strap

use ./env_setup.sh to faciliate

cd qkd

qne experiment run exp --timeout=30

qne experiment results exp --show

... or in your favorite editor:

vim exp/raw_output/LAST/results.yaml

Targeted results are returned in the dict as secret_key

Detailed comments in app_alice.py describe the full procedure, and variable involved.

See also application.json and exp/ .json files for details about how the application is being run, and the network it's being simulated on. Details for how to modify this configuration are: in the QNE-ADK docs

In order to facilitate a more in-depth understanding of the proceedings, ensure that you have NetQASM installed based on aforementioned instructions, and use: cd qkd-strap/src netqasm simulate --log-level=INFO

and your screen will be flooded with details about the proceedings between alice and bob.

• Implement an Eavesdropper, possibly in-line with eavesdropping strategies which may be possible following the security-implications paper above.
• Differentiate between an eavesdropper and a noisy-channel. See this part of wikipedia