Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol — mentioned by scythe

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:22:53 GMT

This story was posted to Hacker News in May: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661576 http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0305?utm_source=feedly Read the arXiv paper: it's quite short and not very technical. The BB84 protocol used is described in a lower comment by 'harshreality. It is secure against any purely classical attacker; Preskill and Shor give a (highly involved) proof of security here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0003004 However, the BB84 protocol used is susceptible in its original form to quantum man-in-the-middle attacks, eg…

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Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol — mentioned by scythe