Decoy pulse quantum key distribution for practical purposes

IET Optoelectronics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 195-200

  Dynes, J F ^a   Yuan, Z L ^a   Sharpe, A W ^a   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ERROR CORRECTION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SENSOR NETWORKS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DECOY PULSES; PRACTICAL; PRIVACY AMPLIFICATIONS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM BITS; VACUUM PULSES; YIELDING;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 54949145798     PISSN: 17518768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt:20070091     Document Type: Article

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