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Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides a theoretically secure method for cryptographic key exchange by leveraging quantum mechanics, but practical implementations face vulnerabilities such as Trojan horse attack on phase modulators. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Aleksei Reutov

Quantum key distribution is an effective encryption technique which can be used to perform secure quantum communication between satellite and ground stations. Quantum cryptography enhances security in various networks such as optical fibers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-20 Vishal Sharma , Subhashish Banerjee

We report here a complete experimental realization of one-way decoy-pulse quantum key distribution, demonstrating an unconditionally secure key rate of 5.51 kbps for a 25.3 km fibre length. This is two orders of magnitudes higher than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. L. Yuan , A. W. Sharpe , A. J. Shields

Quantum secure direct communication is one of the important mode of quantum communication, which sends secret information through a quantum channel directly without setting up a prior key. Over the past decade, numerous protocols have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Jianyong Hu , Mingyong Jing , Peng Zhang , Qiangqiang Zhang , Huifang Hou , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

We present a protocol for deterministic and highly efficient quantum cryptography with entangled photon pairs in a 4x4-dimentional Hilbert space. Two communicating parties, Alice and Bob first share a both polarization- and path-entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi Zhao , Tao Yang , Zeng-Bing Chen , Jiangfeng Du , Jian-Wei Pan

We define cheat sensitive cryptographic protocols between mistrustful parties as protocols which guarantee that, if either cheats, the other has some nonzero probability of detecting the cheating. We give an example of an unconditionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lucien Hardy , Adrian Kent

Quantum communication holds promise for absolutely security in secret message transmission. Quantum secure direct communication is an important mode of the quantum communication in which secret messages are securely communicated over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Jianyong Hu , Bo Yu , Mingyong Jing , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Guoqing Qin , Guilu Long

B92-type and BB84-type quantum cryptography schemes using superposed states of the vacuum and single particle states which are robust against PNS attacks are studied. The number of securely transferred classical bits per particle (not per…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-27 Jae-Weon Lee , Jaewan Kim , Yong Wook Cheong , Hai-Woong Lee , Eok Kyun Lee

In this article we deal with the security of the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol over noisy channels using generalized privacy amplification. For this we estimate the fraction of bits needed to be discarded during the privacy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Lütkenhaus , Stephen M. Barnett

Existing quantum cryptography is resistant against secrecy-breaking quantum computers but suffers fast decay of the signal at long distances. The various types of repeaters of propagating quantum states have been developed to meet the…

Decoherence and loss will limit the practicality of quantum cryptography and computing unless successful error correction techniques are developed. To this end, we have discovered a new scheme for perfectly detecting and rejecting the error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Isaac L. Chuang , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

A new approach to quantum cryptography to be called KCQ, keyed communication in quantum noise, is developed on the basis of quantum detection and communication theory for classical information transmission. By the use of a shared secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols enable two distant parties to communicate with information-theoretically proven secrecy. However, these protocols are generally vulnerable to potential mismatches between the physical modeling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Corentin Lanore , Xavier Valcarce , Jean Etesse , Anthony Martin , Jean-Daniel Bancal

Quantum computing poses significant threats to conventional cryptographic techniques such as RSA and AES, motivating the need for quantum secure communication methods. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers information theoretic security…

Relativistic protocols have been proposed to overcome some impossibility results in classical and quantum cryptography. In such a setting, one takes the location of honest players into account, and uses the fact that information cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 V. Vilasini , Christopher Portmann , Lidia del Rio

Quantum computing is reshaping the security landscape of modern telecommunications. The cryptographic foundations that secure todays 5G systems, including RSA, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and Diffie-Hellman (DH), are all susceptible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Vipin Rathi , Lakshya Chopra , Rudraksh Rawal , Nitin Rajput , Shiva Valia , Madhav Aggarwal , Aditya Gairola

We propose an efficient quantum protocol performing quantum bit commitment, which is a simple cryptographic primitive involved with two parties, called a committer and a verifier. Our protocol is non-interactive, uses no supplemental shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Digital signatures are widely used in modern communication to guarantee authenticity and transferability of messages, The security of currently used classical schemes relies on computational assumptions. We present a quantum signature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Ryan Amiri , Petros Wallden , Adrian Kent , Erika Andersson

The methods of quantum cryptography enable one to have perfectly secure communication lines, whereby the laws of quantum physics protect the privacy of the data exchanged. Each quantum-cryptography scheme has its own security criteria that…

We develop a general framework for parameter estimation that allows only trusted parties to access the result and achieves optimal precision. The protocols are designed such that adversaries can access some information indeterministically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Zixin Huang , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone