International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS)

Key Distribution Protocol on Quantum Cryptography

Kondwani Makanda, Jun‐Cheol Jeon

Published Dec 1, 2013• 1 citation

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss some problems in modern key distribution cryptography such as Diffie-Hellman key distribution and compare with quantum key distribution cryptography which has potential of replacing the typical algorithms due to the fact that they use natural properties of physics like not being able to be cloned or copied.

DOI: 10.1109/icitcs.2013.6717850

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