Evaluation of Entaglement-based Quantum Key Distribution for Genome Data Transmission
Hyun‐Jo Kim · 2023
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) provides a method for two parties to communicate securely by generating a private key. Using IBM Qiskit, a python-based quantum software development kit, the Ekert 91 Protocol has been simulated on IBM's “qasm_simulator” using 864 maximally entangled states from a simulated photon source. Considering both cases where there is and is not an eavesdropper intercepting the entangled photons, the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality demonstrated that the use of entanglement-based QKD to encrypt genome data (length of 1 million bases) with one-time-pad encryption is theoretically highly viable.