Security against individual attacks for realistic quantum key distribution

By Norbert Lutkenhaus. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Tight finite-key analysis for quantum cryptography (2011, methodology): “To take into account the sources that emit weak coherent light pulses instead, the analysis presented in this paper can be extended using photon taggin”
Feasibility of satellite quantum key distribution (2009, background): “in the case of a temporal-multiplexing scheme, as a function of the channel-characterization pulses repetition rate. Data are shown for satellites at diﬀerent altitudes. number-splitting (PNS) attack [25, 26, 27]. She can split a photon from the multiphoton pulse, store it and measure it in the corr”
Single-photon sources (2005, methodology): “Lütkenhaus (2000) gives analytical expressions of the minimum amount of transmission to ensure secrecy, taking these algorithms into account, and compares the cases of attenuated laser pulses and of a single-photon source under these conditions.”
Differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution (2002, methodology): “, strongly attenuated laser light, is fragile to photon number splitting attack.(8) To overcome this problem, BB84 with decoy states was proposed,(9) and a number of recent experiments employ this modified BB84 protocol.”
Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices (2020, methodology): “The source device imperfection severely undermines the performance of a QKD system, typically below 30-km fiber (Gottesman et al., 2004; Lütkenhaus, 2000; Ma, 2006).”
High efficiency single photon detection via frequency up-conversion (2004, background): “messages[10][ 11 ][12]. Other uses of IR photon counters include infrared astronomy[13][14][15] and detection”
The security of practical quantum key distribution (2008, methodology): “Security proofs could be adapted to deal with the case (Gottesman, Lo, Lütkenhaus and Preskill, 2004; Inamori, Lütkenhaus and Mayers, 2001-2007; Lütkenhaus, 2000): the extractable secret key rate was found to scale much worse with the distance than for single-photon sources (t2 compared to t,…”
Advances in quantum cryptography (2019, neutral): “[104] N.”