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arXiv:quant-ph/0406115 · Physical Review A

Comment on “Secure direct communication with a quantum one-time pad”

H. Hoffmann, Kim Joris Boström, Timo Felbinger

Published Jul 11, 2005• 27 citations
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Abstract

In the paper [], a quantum direct communication protocol is proposed which is claimed to be unconditionally secure even for the case of a noisy channel. We show that this is not the case by giving an undetectable attack scheme.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.72.016301

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