Accession Number:
ADA442128
Title:
Security of Y-00 and Similar Quantum Cryptographic Protocols
Descriptive Note:
Conference paper
Corporate Author:
NORTHWESTERN UNIV EVANSTON IL DEPT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
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Report Date:
2004-11-16
Pagination or Media Count:
10.0
Abstract:
It is claimed in Phys. Lett. A by T. Nishioka et al. 327 2004 28-32 that the security of Y-00 is equivalent to that of a classical stream cipher. In this paper it is shown that the claim is false in either the use of Y-00 for direct encryption or key generation, in all the parameter ranges it is supposed to operate including those of the experiments reported thus far. The security of Y-00 type protocols is clarified.
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Subject Categories:
- Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy