Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v5
Abstract
We propose a decoy-state method to overcome the photon-number-splitting attack for Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution protocol in the presence of high loss: A legitimate user intentionally and randomly replaces signal pulses by multi-photon pulses (decoy-states). Then they check the loss of the decoy-states. If the loss of the decoy-states is abnormally less than that of signal pulses, the whole protocol is aborted. Otherwise, to continue the protocol, they estimate loss of signal multi-photon pulses based on that of decoy-states. This estimation can be done with an assumption that the two losses have similar values, that we justify.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0211153,
title = {Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication},
author = {W. -Y. Hwang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0211153},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
derivation made more detailed, 4 pages, RevTex