Thwarting the Photon Number Splitting Attack with Entanglement Enhanced BB84 Quantum Key Distribution

2011/11/30 by Carl F. Sabottke, Carl F Sabottke, Chris D Richardson +10
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #BB84 #Coherent states #Computer science #Computer security #Distribution (mathematics) #Key (lock) #Mathematics #Photon #Photon entanglement #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum cryptography #Quantum entanglement #Quantum key distribution #Quantum mechanics #Quantum network #Resilience (materials science) #Scheme (mathematics) #Topology (electrical circuits) #physics.optics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/043003

published as New J. Phys. 14, 043003 (2012) · 10 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2012/02/01 · openalex publication_date 2012/02/28 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

peer reviewed

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