Robert Bedington

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    Nanosatellite experiments to enable future space-based QKD missions
    (2016) Bedington, R; Bai, X; Truong-Cao, E; Tan, Y.C; Durak, K; Zafra, A.V; Grieve, J.A; Oi, D.K.L; Ling, A; CENTRE FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; PHYSICS
    We present a programme for establishing the space worthiness of highly-miniaturised, polarisation-entangled, photon pair sources using CubeSat nanosatellites. Once demonstrated, the photon pair sources can be deployed on more advanced satellites that are equipped with optical links to establish a global space-based quantum key distribution network. In doing so, this work will also bring experimental tests of the overlap between quantum and relativistic regimes closer to realisation. © 2016 Bedington et al.
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    Satellite quantum communications when man-in-the-middle attacks are excluded
    (MDPI AG, 2019) Vergoossen, T.; Bedington, R.; Grieve, J.A.; Ling, A.; CENTRE FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; PHYSICS
    An application of quantum communications is the transmission of qubits to create shared symmetric encryption keys in a process called quantum key distribution (QKD). Contrary to public-private key encryption, symmetric encryption is considered safe from (quantum) computing attacks, i.e. it provides forward security and is thus attractive for secure communications. In this paper we argue that for free-space quantum communications, especially with satellites, if one assumes that man-in-the-middle attacks can be detected by classical channel monitoring techniques, simplified quantum communications protocols and hardware systems can be implemented that offer improved key rates. We term these protocols photon key distribution (PKD) to differentiate them from the standard QKD protocols. We identify three types of photon sources and calculate asymptotic secret key rates for PKD protocols and compare them to their QKD counterparts. PKD protocols use only one measurement basis which we show roughly doubles the key rates. Furthermore, with the relaxed security assumptions one can establish keys at very high losses, in contrast to QKD where at the same losses privacy amplification would make key generation impossible. © 2019 by the authors.