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Defense frontier analysis of quantum cryptographic systems

B Slutsky, R Rao, P C Sun

    Applied Optics
    |February 15, 2008
    PubMed
    Summary

    Quantum key distillation secures communication against noise and eavesdropping by sacrificing some data. The BB84 protocol demonstrates better performance than B92 for secure quantum cryptography.

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