Abstract
All incoherent as well as 2- and 3-qubit coherent eavesdropping strategies on the 6 state protocol of quantum cryptography are classified. For a disturbance of 1/6, the optimal incoherent eavesdropping strategy reduces to the universal quantum cloning machine. Coherent eavesdropping cannot increase Eve's Shannon information, neither on the entire string of bits, nor on the set of bits received undisturbed by Bob. However, coherent eavesdropping can increase as well Eve's Renyi information as her probability of guessing correctly all bits. The case that Eve delays the measurement of her probe until after the public discussion on error correction and privacy amplification is also considered. It is argued that by doing so, Eve gains only a negligibly small additional information.
Keywords
EavesdroppingQuantum cryptographyComputer scienceQubitProtocol (science)Coherent statesCryptographyQuantum cloningSet (abstract data type)State (computer science)Quantum key distributionQuantum informationTheoretical computer scienceQuantumMathematicsAlgorithmPhysicsQuantum mechanicsComputer securityQuantum error correction
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- 1999
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- 59
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- 6
- Pages
- 4238-4248
- Citations
- 350
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H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci,
Nicolas Gisin
(1999).
Incoherent and coherent eavesdropping in the six-state protocol of quantum cryptography.
Physical Review A
, 59
(6)
, 4238-4248.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.59.4238
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- DOI
- 10.1103/physreva.59.4238