A fundamental threat to quantum cryptography: gravitational attacks

Details A fundamental threat to quantum cryptography: gravitational attacks A fundamental threat to quantum cryptography: gravitational attacks

2006-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603234v1

Eur. Phys. J. D 38, 409-413 (2006)

Physics

Quantum Physics

Eur. Phys. J. D (2006), in print

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjd/e2006-00045-y

An attack on the ``Bennett-Brassard 84''(BB84) quantum key-exchange protocol in which Eve exploits the action of gravitation to infer information about the quantum-mechanical state of the qubit exchanged between Alice and Bob, is described. It is demonstrated that the known laws of physics do not allow to describe the attack. Without making assumptions that are not based on broad consensus, the laws of quantum gravity, unknown up to now, would be needed even for an approximate treatment. Therefore, it is currently not possible to predict with any confidence if information gained in this attack will allow to break BB84. Contrary to previous belief, a proof of the perfect security of BB84 cannot be based on the assumption that the known laws of physics are strictly correct, yet.

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