Security aspects of practical quantum cryptography

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1807, Issue , 2000, Pages 289-299

  Brassard, Gilles ^a   Lütkenhaus, Norbert ^b   Mor, Tal ^c,d   Sanders, Barry C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUBITS;

DETECTION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; SECURITY ASPECTS; SECURITY ISSUES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; UNCONDITIONAL SECURITY; WEAK COHERENT PULSE;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84948972108     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45539-6_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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