Quantum cryptography: A survey

  • Authors:
  • Dagmar Bruss;Gábor Erdélyi;Tim Meyer;Tobias Riege;Jörg Rothe

  • Affiliations:
  • Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We survey some results in quantum cryptography. After a brief introduction to classical cryptography, we provide the quantum-mechanical background needed to present some fundamental protocols from quantum cryptography. In particular, we review quantum key distribution via the BB84 protocol and its security proof, as well as the related quantum bit commitment protocol and its proof of insecurity.