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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-16-2420</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23928</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>E.4 - CODING AND INFORMATION THEORY</subject>
          <subject>H.1.0 - General</subject>
          <subject>H.1.1 - Systems and Information Theory</subject>
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        <article-title>A Security Real-time Privacy Amplification Scheme in QKD System</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Liu</surname>
            <given-names>Bo</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">liub0yayu@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zhao</surname>
            <given-names>Baokang</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Liu</surname>
            <given-names>Bo</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Wu</surname>
            <given-names>Chunqing</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">National University of Defense Technology, Hunan, China</addr-line>
        <institution>National University of Defense Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Hunan</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Bo Liu (<email xlink:type="simple">liub0yayu@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>16</issue>
      <fpage>2420</fpage>
      <lpage>2436</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/5D24DE45-B559-541B-ACAC-0729F4CE7DC1">5D24DE45-B559-541B-ACAC-0729F4CE7DC1</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5506107">5506107</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>27</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Bo Liu, Baokang Zhao, Bo Liu, Chunqing Wu</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology, based on the laws of physics, can create unconditional security keys between communication parties. In recent years, researchers draw more and more attention to the QKD technology. Privacy amplification is a very significant procedure in QKD system. In this paper, we propose the real-time privacy amplification (RTPA) scheme which converts the weak secret string to a uniform key that is fully secret from Eve. Our detailed proofs show the security of our RTPA scheme. In order to prevent the potential man-in-middle attacks, we employ an authentication procedure to RTPA scheme (ARTPA) with the "-XOR almost universal hash functions. We implement our ARTPA scheme based on CLIP system, which is connected to the quantum communication system. Considering the privacy amplification and authentication overhead and the finite size effect on the security of final keys, we set the secret key length be 256k before privacy amplification and the authentication tag length be 60. Our experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed ARTPA scheme.</p>
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