Abstract: The invention relates to a method for device-independent quantum key generation and distribution between a first and a second receiver, the method comprising the steps of: a) Generating an entangled information pair, comprising two entangled quantum moieties that have at least one quantum state entangled with each other, such as a polarization, b) Transmitting a first entangled quantum moiety of the two entangled quantum moieties to the first receiver (A) and a second entangled quantum moiety of the two entangled quantum moieties to the second receiver (B), and measuring the quantum states of the entangled moieties with a set of selected detection settings chosen randomly at each receiver c) In a modification step, assigning each measurement value b1 measured with a detection setting B1 a complementary value b 1 ? according to a noise-probability p, wherein the noise-probability p is larger than 0 and lower than 1, such that a modified plurality of measurement values b 1 ˜ is obtained