Eavesdropping on the “Ping-Pong” Quantum Communication Protocol
- 15 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (15), 157901
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.157901
Abstract
Security of the “ping-pong” quantum communication protocol recently proposed by Boström and Felbinger [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 187902 (2002)] is analyzed in the case of considerable quantum channel losses. The eavesdropping scheme is presented, which reveals that the ping-pong protocol is not secure for transmission efficiencies lower than 60%. Our scheme induces 50% losses, which, however, can be hidden in the channel losses if one replaces the original lossy channel with a less lossy one. Finally, a possible improvement of the ping-pong protocol security is proposed.Keywords
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