nLab quantum cryptography

Idea

Quantum cryptography is cryptography making use of effects of quantum physics and quantum information theory/quantum computation, such as the no-cloning theorem and versions of quantum teleportation.

Related concepts

• Shor's algorithm, Grover's algorithm

• quantum supremacy

• quantum chemistry, quantum biology

References

Original articles:

• Stephen Wiesner, Conjugate Coding, circulated in the 1960s, finally published in ACM SIGACT News 15 1 (1083) 78–88 (original pdf, doi:10.1145/1008908.1008920)

Introducing the notion of quantum key distribution:

• Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Quantum cryptography: Public key distribution and coin tossing, International Conference on Computers, Systems & Signal Processing, Bangalore, India (1984) 175-179 [scan: arXiv:2003.06557]

  reprinted in: Theoretical Computer Science 560 1 (2014) 7-11 [doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2014.05.025]

• Artur K. Ekert, Quantum cryptography based on Bell’s theorem, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 661 (1991) [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.661]

Textbook accounts:

• Dirk Bouwmeester, Artur Ekert, Anton Zeilinger (eds.), The Physics of Quantum Information – Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation, Springer (2020) [doi:10.1007/978-3-662-04209-0]

  (focus on experimental realization)

• Ramona Wolf: Quantum Key Distribution – An Introduction with Exercises, Springer (2021) [doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73991-1, webpage]

See also

• Wikipedia, Quantum cryptography

• Renato Renner, Ramona Wolf, Quantum Advantage in Cryptography, AIAA Journal (2023) 1-16 [arXiv:2206.04078, doi:10.2514/1.J062267]