Independent attacks in imperfect settings: a case for a two-way quantum key distribution scheme

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2010.08.040MaRDI QIDQ418502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. S. Shaari, Iskandar Bahari

Publication date 29 May 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3562

zbMATH Keywords

quantum key distributiontwo-way QKDBB84

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cryptography (94A60) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94)

Abstract: We review the study on a two way quantum key distribution protocol given imperfect settings through a simple analysis of a toy model and show that it can outperform a BB84 setup. We provide the sufficient condition for this as a ratio of optimal intensities for the protocols.

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