NOISE TOLERANCE OF THE BB84 PROTOCOL WITH RANDOM PRIVACY AMPLIFICATION

This paper shows that the random privacy amplification is secure with a higher key rate than Mayers' evaluation at the same error rate in the BB84 protocol with one-way or two-way classical communications. There exists only Mayers' evaluation on the secure key rate with random privacy amplification that is applicable to the BB84 protocol with two-way classical communications. Our result improves the secure key rate of the random privacy amplification in the BB84 protocol with two-way classical communications.

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