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arXiv:quant-ph/0609175 · International Journal of Quantum Information

RAW-DATA ATTACKS IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY WITH PARTIAL TOMOGRAPHY

Syed M. Assad, Jun Suzuki, Berthold‐Georg Englert

Published Dec 1, 2006• 2 citations
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Abstract

We consider a variant of the BB84 protocol for quantum cryptography, the prototype of tomographically incomplete protocols, where the key is generated by one-way communication rather than the usual two-way communication. Our analysis, backed by numerical evidence, establishes thresholds for eavesdropping attacks on the raw data and on the generated key at quantum bit error rates of 10% and 6.15%, respectively. Both thresholds are lower than the threshold for unconditional security in the standard BB84 protocol.

DOI
10.1142/s0219749906002365

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