Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
422306 Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 2008 20 Pages PDF
Abstract

We prove that quantum key distribution is secure against several types of attacks within the framework of classical knowledge knowledge for quantum systems, a formal model which was developed in [D'Hondt, E. and P. Panangaden, Reasoning about quantum knowledge, in: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, LNCS 3821, 2005, p. 0544c (to appear), quant-ph/0507176]. In particular we rephrase security as a logical property and use meta-logic reasoning on the finite state machine corresponding to the quantum key distribution protocol. While these security issues have been studied before, it is the logical-based approach that is original here.

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