CHAPTER 15 Quantum cryptography.ppt

Quantum cryptography CHAPTER 15: Quantum cryptography An important new feature of quantum cryptography is that security of cryptographic protocols generation is based on the laws of nature and not on the unproven assumptions of computational complexity theory. Quantum cryptography is the first area in which quantum physics laws are directly exploited to bring an essential advantage in information processing. Three main outcomes so far · It has been proven that unconditionally secure quantum generation of classical secret and shared keys is possible (in the sense that any eavesdropping is