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Phys. Rev. A 65, 032307 (2002) [7 pages]

Invisible transmission in quantum cryptography using continuous variables: A proof of Eve’s vulnerability

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Patrick Navez, Alessandra Gatti, and Luigi A. Lugiato
INFM, Dipartimento di Scienze CC FF MM, Universita degli Studi dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy

Received 27 July 2001; published 13 February 2002

By analogy to classical cryptography, we develop a quantum cryptographic scheme in which the two public and private keys consist in each of two entangled beams of squeezed light. An analog secret information is encrypted by modulating the phase of the beam sent in public. The knowledge of the degree of nonclassical correlation between the beam quadratures measured in private and in public allows only the receiver to decrypt the secret information. Finally, in a view towards absolute security, we formally prove that any external intervention of an eavesdropper makes him vulnerable to any subsequent detection.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032307
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032307
PACS:
03.67.Dd, 03.67.Hk, 42.50.Dv, 42.65.-k