Attacks on fixed apparatus quantum key distribution schemes

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-33860-1_9MaRDI QIDQ4649273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Boyer, Ran Gelles, Tal Mor

Publication date 21 November 2012

Published in Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0979

zbMATH Keywords

implementation loopholesquantum cryptographyquantum key distributionsecurity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We consider quantum key distribution implementations in which the receiver's apparatus is fixed and does not depend on his choice of basis at each qubit transmission. We show that, although theoretical quantum key distribution is proven secure, such implementations are totally insecure against a strong eavesdropper that has one-time (single) access to the receiver's equipment. The attack we present here, the "fixed-apparatus attack" causes a potential risk to the usefulness of several recent implementations.

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