Analysis of coherent quantum cryptography protocol vulnerability to an active beam-splitting attack

作者：Kronberg D A^*; Kiktenko E O; Fedorov A K; Kurochkin Yu V

来源：Quantum Electronics, 2017, 47(2): 163-168.

DOI：10.1070/QEL16240

• quantum cryptography
• quantum information theory

We consider a new type of attack on a coherent quantum key distribution protocol [coherent one-way (COW) protocol]. The main idea of the attack consists in measuring individually the intercepted states and sending the rest of them unchanged. We have calculated the optimum values of the attack parameters for an arbitrary length of a communication channel and compared this novel attack with a standard beam-splitting attack.

• 出版日期2017