0211153v5

related topics
{key, protocol, security}
{photon, photons, single}
{state, phys, rev}
{spin, pulse, spins}
{alice, bob, state}
{state, states, coherent}

Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication

W. -Y. Hwang

abstract: We propose a decoy-state method to overcome the photon-number-splitting attack for Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution protocol in the presence of high loss: A legitimate user intentionally and randomly replaces signal pulses by multi-photon pulses (decoy-states). Then they check the loss of the decoy-states. If the loss of the decoy-states is abnormally less than that of signal pulses, the whole protocol is aborted. Otherwise, to continue the protocol, they estimate loss of signal multi-photon pulses based on that of decoy-states. This estimation can be done with an assumption that the two losses have similar values, that we justify.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0211153
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
derivation made more detailed, 4 pages, RevTex
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.057901
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0211153
journal_ref:
Physical Review Letters 91, 057901 (2003)
created:
2002-11-24
updated:
2003-05-19

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