Cryptographic Key Generation Using Conventional Single-Mode Fiber and an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sagae, Yuto; Nakamura, Atsushi; Mori, Takayoshi; Koshikiya, Yusuke; Nakajima, Kazuhide
- Source
- 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2024. :1-3 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Optical fiber networks
Reflectometry
Optical fiber devices
Cryptography
Optical reflection
Time-domain analysis
- Language
Generation of cryptographic key is demonstrated by conventional equipment for an optical network. Random bit sequences obtained from an optical time domain reflectometry of a single-mode fiber satisfies a quality of randomness as cryptographic keys.