Feasibility of the interlock protocol against man-in-the-middle attacks on quantum cryptography

Abstract

If an eavesdropper succeeds in compromising the quantum as well as the classical channels and mimics the receiver "Bob" for the sender "Alice" and vice versa, one defence strategy is the successive, temporally interlocked partial transmission of the entire encrypted message.

References in corpus (6)

• Quantum Cryptography
• Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol
• Practical Quantum Key Distribution with Polarization-Entangled Photons
• Estimates for practical quantum cryptography
• Practical Quantum Cryptography: A Comprehensive Analysis (Part One)
• Vulnerabilities in Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Trusted Certificates in Quantum Cryptography
• Variations on Kak's Three Stage Quantum Cryptography Protocol
• Classical Authentication Aided Three-Stage Quantum Protocol
• Layer-Wise Security Framework and Analysis for the Quantum Internet
• Comparing BB84 and Authentication-Aided Kak's Three-Stage Quantum Protocol