Security enhanced quantum cryptography by controlled spontaneous randomness

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E82-A, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 658-664

  Matsueda, Hideaki ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coding the phase; Controlled equivocation; Controlled spontaneous emission; Photon counting; Quantum cryptography

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SECURITY OF DATA; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

CONTROLLED EQUIVOCATION; PHOTON COUNTING; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032675201     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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