An update on quantum cryptography
Proceedings of CRYPTO 84 on Advances in cryptology
How to reduce your enemy's information
Lecture notes in computer sciences; 218 on Advances in cryptology---CRYPTO 85
Privacy amplification by public discussion
SIAM Journal on Computing - Special issue on cryptography
Modern cryptology
ACM SIGACT News - A special issue on cryptography
Achieving oblivious transfer using weakened security assumptions
SFCS '88 Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Crossroads
Quantum Bit Commitment and Coin Tossing Protocols
CRYPTO '90 Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Practical Quantum Oblivious Transfer
CRYPTO '91 Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
On the (un)reliability of eavesdropping
International Journal of Security and Networks
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We describe initial results from an apparatus and protocol designed to implement quantum public key distribution, by which two users, who share no secret information initially: 1) exchange a random quantum transmission, consisting of very faint flashes of polarized light; 2) by subsequent public discussion of the sent and received versions of this transmission estimate the extent of eavesdropping that might have taken place on it, and finally 3) if this estimate is small enough, can distill from the sent and received versions a smaller body of shared random information (key), which is certifiably secret in the sense that any third party's expected information on it is an exponentially small fraction of one bit. Because the system depends on the uncertainty principle of quantum physics, instead of usual mathematical assumptions such as the difficulty of factoring, it remains secure against an adversary with unlimited computing power.