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This article is cited in 3 scientific papers (total in 3 papers)
Vulnerability of quantum cryptography with phase–time coding under attenuation conditions
D. A. Kronberg Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
The protocol of quantum cryptography with phase–time coding uses a configuration of states with the splitting into bases located in different time windows, as a result of which the eavesdropper information is estimated using two parameters. We show that some attacks using the attenuation in the communication links were not taken into account in analyzing the protocol security. We construct an attack that explicitly demonstrates the protocol vulnerability: the protocol loses its security completely even in the case of an arbitrarily short communication link, i.e., the entire cryptographic key becomes known to the eavesdropper.
Keywords:
quantum cryptography, quantum information theory, quantum transformation with the postselection.
Received: 15.06.2022 Revised: 10.08.2022
Citation:
D. A. Kronberg, “Vulnerability of quantum cryptography with phase–time coding under attenuation conditions”, TMF, 214:1 (2023), 140–152; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 214:1 (2023), 121–131
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf10326https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf10326 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf/v214/i1/p140
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