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Security flaw of counterfactual quantum cryptography in practical setting

Quantum Physics 2014-04-29 v5

Abstract

Recently, counterfactual quantum cryptography proposed by T. G. Noh [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 230501 (2009)] becomes an interesting direction in quantum cryptography, and has been realized by some researchers (such as Y. Liu et al's [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 030501 (2012)]). However, we find out that it is insecure in practical high lossy channel setting. We analyze the secret key rates in lossy channel under a polarization-splitting-measurement attack. Analysis indicates that the protocol is insecure when the loss rate of the one-way channel exceeds 5050%.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1436,
  title  = {Security flaw of counterfactual quantum cryptography in practical setting},
  author = {Yan-Bing Li and Qiao-Yan Wen and Zi-Chen Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1436},
  year   = {2014}
}

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