Welcome to QOSST’s documentation!

QOSST, for Quantum Open Software for Secure Transmissions is an open source suite of software to implement a CV-QKD system.

Quick access to QOSST softwares

• Alice (docs)

• Bob (docs)

• Core (docs)

• HAL (docs)

• SKR (docs)

• Sim (docs)

Article

The article associated to this publication can be found on the arXiv: arXiv:2404.18637.

Here is the bibtex to cite this paper:

@misc{pietri2024qosst,
      title={QOSST: A Highly-Modular Open Source Platform for Experimental Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution}, 
      author={Yoann Piétri and Matteo Schiavon and Valentina Marulanda Acosta and Baptiste Gouraud and Luis Trigo Vidarte and Philippe Grangier and Amine Rhouni and Eleni Diamanti},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2404.18637},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={id='quant-ph' full_name='Quantum Physics' is_active=True alt_name=None in_archive='quant-ph' is_general=False description=None}
}

Introduction

• Goals and design
• Structure

Introduction to CV-QKD

• Quantum Key Distribution
• Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Technical

• Getting started
• Tutorial

Community

• Contributing
• License

Complementary information

• References
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms