Fig. 5. Finite-key simulation for the robust DIQKD protocol.
Shown is the minimum number of rounds, that is, block length, required to distribute a finite key with a certain epsilon security, considering collective attacks and uniformly distributed measurement settings. The channel parameters S, Q0 and Q1 are set to the observed values in the experiment. A non-asymptotic security of εDI = 10−5 is considered to be realistic for cryptography applications.