Entropy estimates for individual attacks on the BB84 protocol for quantum key distribution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5436, Issue , 2004, Pages 36-47

  Myers, John M ^a   Wu, Tai Tsun ^a   Pearson, David ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense frontier; Eavesdropping; Privacy amplification; Quantum key distribution; R nyi entropy

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ENTROPY; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

DEFENSE FRONTIER; EAVESDROPPING; PRIVACY AMPLIFICATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD); RÉNYI ENTROPY;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 10444225298     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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