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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.10.037zbMATH Open1227.81146arXiv0712.1092OpenAlexW1743462701WikidataQ62039358 ScholiaQ62039358MaRDI QIDQ646974FDOQ646974

Authors: Ranjith Nair, Horace P. Yuen 

Publication date: 30 November 2011

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cryptographydata encryptionrandom cipher

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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