OpenQKDSecurity

Platform for numerical evaluation of secret key rates for general Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols

Initiated by the Optical Quantum Communication Theory Group at the
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

Objective:

Enable a wider class of researchers to calculate correctly and accurately secret key rates for QKD protocols

Enlarge the group of researchers contributing to the quest of finding optimal QKD key rates by separating the tasks of protocol design from the security analysis.

Bring in expertise from the wider research community, such as from numerical convex optimization, to improve the convergence of the underlying numerical methods

News

3. September 2021:
launch of the beta version of advanced user platform on github

Download via GitHub

https://github.com/nlutkenhaus/openQKDsecurity
(requires MATLAB and CVX2.0 to run)

This is a pre-release aimed at users who are familiar with QKD security analysis. Future releases will lower the threshold for using our software. We will restructure our software in preparation for these releases and welcome your feedback!

We will provide here the link to our updated github page the moment the software package is going live

Contributors:
Scientific Framework and Software Concept Development:
Patrick Coles
Norbert Lütkenhaus
Jie Lin
Eric Metodiev
Ian George
Nicky Kai Hong Li
Kun Fang
Max Chemtov
Yanbao Zhang
Christopher Böhm
Adam Winick
Thomas van Himbeeck

Open Source Software
Wenyuan Wang
Jie Lin
Ian George
Shouzhen (Bailey) Gu
Natansh Mathur
Twesh Upadhyaya
Adam Winick

Contact

Prof. Norbert Lütkenhaus 
lutkenhaus.office AT uwaterloo.ca