中国物理B ›› 2007, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (11): 3402-3406.doi: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/11/043

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Influence of multi-photon pulses on practical differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution

赵峰, 傅明星, 路轶群, 刘颂豪   

  • 出版日期:2007-11-20 发布日期:2007-11-20

Influence of multi-photon pulses on practical differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution

Zhao Feng(赵峰)a)b), Fu Ming-Xing(傅明星)b), Lu Yi-Qun(路轶群)a), and Liu Song-Hao(刘颂豪)a)   

  1. Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology, School for Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China; Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723003, China 
  • Online:2007-11-20 Published:2007-11-20

Abstract: The influence of multi-photon pulses on practical differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution (DPS-QKD) is analysed. We have estimated the information which Eve obtained by PNS (photon-number splitting) attack and BS (beam splitting) attack. The result indicates that the PNS attack and BS attack will not limit the transmission distance as long as we select an appropriate mean photon number. Also, the maximum mean photon number under BS attack in practical DPS-QKD system and the set of practical assumptions about Eve’s capabilities are presented. 

Key words: multi-photon pulses, differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution, PNS attack, BS attack

中图分类号:  (Quantum cryptography and communication security)

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