01▲When Routes Run Out: Adversarial Co-Learning and Explainable Robustness in Quantum Repeater Networks arxiv.org Adversarial bandit routing for quantum repeaters, then a decision tree and LLM explain why the agent survives Eve.adversarial-learningarxivbanditsexplainabilityqkdquantum-cryptographyquantum-networks1 pt/dford/22 hours ago/discuss
02▲Why all the fuss about Quantum Key Distribution–QKD? techaptitude.substack.com An overview of QKD, its variants, standards, and deployment status, plus the usual “is this actually useful?” subtext.key-exchangemastodonpost-quantumpqcqkdquantum-cryptographyquantum-physics2 pts/mramos/4 days ago/2 comments
03▲Optimization of Hardware Architecture for Quantum Key Distribution eprint.iacr.org Pipelined FPGA post-processing for QKD, trading logic for throughput and resource efficiency like crypto hardware loves to do.cryptographyeprintfpgahardwarepost-processingqkdquantum2 pts/vossr/6 days ago/discuss
04▲Noise-limited secret key agreement with twin optical physically unclonable functions arxiv.org Can twin optical PUF speckle patterns yield a shared key under noise? This paper says yes, with sketches and privacy amplification.arxiverror-reconciliationinformation-theoretic-cryptographykey-agreementprivacyprivacy-amplificationpufqkd2 pts/ines/6 days ago/1 comment
05▲Quantum Key Distribution Without Shared Reference Frame Under Unital Noise arxiv.org QKD without a shared frame on unknown unital qubit noise, and somehow BB84 and six-state still stay optimal.arxivblockchainprivacyqkdquantum-cryptography0 pts/mei/15 days ago/1 comment
06▲Passive-User Bell-State Loop-Back Key Establishment without Quantum Detectors at the User Nodes arxiv.org Passive-user QKD paper: users just twiddle Pauli ops, the active station measures Bell states, and nobody buys detectors.arxivbell-stateentanglementkey-establishmentpauli-operationsprivacyqkdquantum0 pts/deadlock23/19 days ago/2 comments
07▲From Bits to Mixed-Radix Keys: Horner Decomposition, Uniform Sampling, and the Information-Theoretic QKD Interface of the MR-OTP arxiv.org Naive mod reduction is biased, and this paper fixes MR-OTP key sampling with rejection sampling and security proofs.arxivcryptographyentropyinformation-theoretic-securityone-time-padqkdsampling0 pts/hbrown/23 days ago/1 comment