Full-field implementation of a perfect eavesdropper on a quantum cryptography system

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gerhardt, Ilja ^a   Liu, Qin ^b   Lamas Linares, Antí A ^a   Skaar, Johannes ^b,c   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^a   Makarov, Vadim ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; EAVESDROPPER; EQUIPMENT; PRIVACY; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79959230884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1348     Document Type: Article

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