Dissipation attack on Bennett-Brassard 1984 protocol in practical quantum key distribution system

Li Yang; Bing Zhu

Dissipation attack on Bennett-Brassard 1984 protocol in practical quantum key distribution system

Quantum Physics 2013-05-27 v1

Authors: Li Yang , Bing Zhu

Abstract

We propose a new kind of individual attack, based on randomly selected dissipation, on Bennett-Brassard 1984 protocol of practical quantum key distribution (QKD) system with lossy and noisy quantum channel. Since an adversary with super quantum channel can disguise loss and errors induced by his attack as that of the system, he can obtain innegligible amount of information for a practical QKD system, without being detected by legal participants.

Keywords

quantum key distribution quantum cryptography

Cite

@article{arxiv.1305.5744,
  title  = {Dissipation attack on Bennett-Brassard 1984 protocol in practical quantum key distribution system},
  author = {Li Yang and Bing Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.5744},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures

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