Time-shift attack in practical quantum cryptosystems

Details Time-shift attack in practical quantum cryptosystems Time-shift attack in practical quantum cryptosystems

2005-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512080v3

Quantum Information and Computation, vol. 7, pp. 073-082 (2007)

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

Recently, a new type of attack, which exploits the efficiency mismatch of two single photon detectors (SPD) in a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, has been proposed. In this paper, we propose another "time-shift" attack that exploits the same imperfection. In our attack, Eve shifts the arrival time of either the signal pulse or the synchronization pulse or both between Alice and Bob. In particular, in a QKD system where Bob employs time-multiplexing technique to detect both bit "0" and bit "1" with the same SPD, Eve, in principle, could acquire full information on the final key without introducing any error. Finally, we discuss some counter measures against our and earlier attacks.

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