Tailored bright illumination attack on distributed-phase-reference protocols

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 680-685

  Lydersen, L ^a,b   Skaar, J ^a,b   Makarov, V ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Detector control attack; Eavesdropping; Quantum cryptography

Indexed keywords

BB84 PROTOCOL; DETECTOR CONTROL; DETECTOR CONTROL ATTACK; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFTS; EAVESDROPPING; LINEAR MODES; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79956134306     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340.2011.565889     Document Type: Article

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