[Qirg] R: Anonymity in quantum networks

Michele AMORETTI <michele.amoretti@unipr.it> Mon, 29 March 2021 16:52 UTC

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From: Michele AMORETTI <michele.amoretti@unipr.it>
To: Wojciech Kozlowski <W.Kozlowski@tudelft.nl>, "qirg@irtf.org" <qirg@irtf.org>
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Subject: [Qirg] R: Anonymity in quantum networks
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Dear Wojtek,

thank you for pointing out this topic, which I think is very interesting.

Another notable (previous) work on the same topic is:  https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04729

In 2019, one of my MSc students simulated the protocol proposed by that paper, using SimulaQron and Qiskit:
https://github.com/qis-unipr/qsip-practical-anonymity  (the code is not up to date, unfortunately)

Best,
Michele

Michele Amoretti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering
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Da: Qirg <qirg-bounces@irtf.org> per conto di Wojciech Kozlowski <W.Kozlowski@tudelft.nl>
Inviato: mercoledì 17 marzo 2021 11:00
A: qirg@irtf.org <qirg@irtf.org>
Oggetto: [Qirg] Anonymity in quantum networks


A question that has been asked at QIRG meetings a few times is whether quantum communication can also be anonymous. In this theme I saw an article on the arXiv today that I thought would be interesting for the QIRG: Anonymous and secret communication in quantum networks<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2103.08722&data=04%7C01%7Cmichele.amoretti%40unipr.it%7Cf5db074897d64ffccf6508d8e92b9136%7Cbb064bc5b7a841ecbabed7beb3faeb1c%7C0%7C0%7C637515721207704966%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=50ruQ42hQmFn12%2BgpZndrqK3Fhrk9lNiWytpFszKoiM%3D&reserved=0>. This is an experimental demonstration of the anonymous conference key agreement protocol proposed in “Anonymous Quantum Conference Key Agreement”<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.aps.org%2Fprxquantum%2Fabstract%2F10.1103%2FPRXQuantum.1.020325&data=04%7C01%7Cmichele.amoretti%40unipr.it%7Cf5db074897d64ffccf6508d8e92b9136%7Cbb064bc5b7a841ecbabed7beb3faeb1c%7C0%7C0%7C637515721207714962%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=WcuDhdmPvvimolaZ42euFZkN4LMxsykmyCimCnHS%2BP0%3D&reserved=0>. It is also worth noting that multipartite entanglement is key to this protocol.



Best regards,

Wojtek