Quantum cryptography on noisy channels: quantum versus classical key-agreement protocols

Details Quantum cryptography on noisy channels: quantum versus classical key-agreement protocols Quantum cryptography on noisy channels: quantum versus classical key-agreement protocols

1999-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9902048v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.83:4200-4203,1999

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages + 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4200

When the 4-state or the 6-state protocol of quantum cryptography is carried out on a noisy (i.e. realistic) quantum channel, then the raw key has to be processed to reduce the information of an adversary Eve down to an arbitrarily low value, providing Alice and Bob with a secret key. In principle, quantum algorithms as well as classical algorithms can be used for this processing. A natural question is: up to which error rate on the raw key is a secret-key agreement at all possible? Under the assumption of incoherent eavesdropping, we find that the quantum and classical limits are precisely the same: as long as Alice and Bob share some entanglement both quantum and classical protocols provide secret keys.

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