Comment on: ``Exposed-key weakness of [Phys. Lett. A 370 (2007) 131]

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.10.037MaRDI QIDQ646974zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ranjith Nair, Horace P. Yuen

Publication date 30 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1092

zbMATH Keywords

data encryptionquantum cryptographyrandom cipher

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We show that the insecurity claim of the AlphaEta cryptosystem made by C. Ahn and K. Birnbaum in Phys. Lett. A 370 (2007) 131-135 under heterodyne attack is based on invalid extrapolations of Shannon's random cipher analysis and on an invalid statistical independence assumption. We show, both for standard ciphers and AlphaEta, that expressions of the kind given by Ahn and Birnbaum can at best be interpreted as security lower bounds.

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