Security of the Bennett-Brassard Quantum Key Distribution Protocol against Collective Attacks

The theoretical Quantum Key-Distribution scheme of Bennett and Brassard (BB84) has been proven secure against very strong attacks including the collective attacks and the joint attacks. Though the latter are the most general attacks, collective attacks are much easier to analyze, yet, they are conje...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tal Mor, Michel Boyer, Ran Gelles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-06-01
Series:Algorithms
Subjects:
QKD
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/2/2/790/