Arrival Time Monitoring

Arrival time monitoring in QKD systems is crucial for detecting timing manipulations in protocols like plug-and-play and MDI-QKD.
 


QID: CM-0027
Tier: T0
Type: Quantum
Tactic: Detect
Created: 2024-03-02
Updated: 2024-05-08

Technique → Countermeasures

List of techniques where this countermeasure can be applied.

Items: 2
Description Technique

Alice should monitor the arrival times of the signal and reference pulses.

Wavelength-Selected Photon-Number-Splitting Attack

Alice carefully checks the arrival time of the reference pulse and the signal pulse by monitoring them.

Phase-Remapping Attack