Boyer Michel, Kenigsberg Dan, Mor Tal
Département IRO, Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec), Canada.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Oct 5;99(14):140501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.140501.
Secure key distribution among two remote parties is impossible when both are classical, unless some unproven computation-complexity assumptions are made, such as the difficulty of factorizing large numbers. On the other hand, a secure key distribution is possible when both parties are quantum. What is possible when only one party (Alice) is quantum, yet the other (Bob) has only classical capabilities? We present a protocol with this constraint and prove its robustness against attacks: we prove that any attempt of an adversary to obtain information necessarily induces some errors that the legitimate users could notice.
当两个远程方都是经典的时,除非做出一些未经证实的计算复杂性假设,比如分解大数的难度,否则在它们之间进行安全的密钥分发是不可能的。另一方面,当双方都是量子的时,安全的密钥分发是可能的。那么当只有一方(爱丽丝)是量子的,而另一方(鲍勃)只有经典能力时会怎样呢?我们提出了一个满足这种约束的协议,并证明了它对攻击的鲁棒性:我们证明,任何对手获取信息的企图必然会引发一些合法用户能够察觉的错误。