Photon-number-splitting versus cloning attacks in practical implementations of the Bennett-Brassard 1984 protocol for quantum cryptography

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Niederberger, Armand ^a   Scarani, Valerio ^b   Gisin, Nicolas ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOB'S DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON-NUMBER-SPLITTING (PNS) ATTACK; SECURITY PARAMETERS; SUB-POISSONIAN SOURCES;

CORRELATION METHODS; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 26944451694     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.042316     Document Type: Article

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