Linking classical and quantum key agreement: Is there “Bound information”?

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

Volumn 1880, Issue , 2000, Pages 482-500

  Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Wolf, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Intrinsic information; Purification; Quantum privacy amplification; Secret key agreement; Secret key rate

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; PURIFICATION;

ENTANGLEMENT; INTRINSIC INFORMATION; QUANTUM PRIVACY; SECRET KEY; SECRET KEY AGREEMENT;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84974621399     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44598-6_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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