On the security of αη: Response to 'some attacks on quantum-based cryptographic protocols'

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 561-582

  Yuen, Horace P ^a   Nair, Ranjith ^a   Corndorf, Eric ^a   Kanter, Gregory S ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

COHERENT STATE; CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS; FINITE NUMBER; KEY GENERATION; NEW APPROACHES; ORTHOGONALITY; SECURITY FEATURES; SECURITY PROOFS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750723870     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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