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Optimal Eavesdropping In Quantum Cryptography, Atanu Acharyya Dr.
Optimal Eavesdropping In Quantum Cryptography, Atanu Acharyya Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Quantum key distribution (QKD) has raised some promise for more secured communication than its classical counterpart. It allows the legitimate parties to detect eavesdropping which introduces error in the channel. If disturbed, there are ways to distill a secure key within some threshold error-rate. The amount of information gained by an attacker is generally quantified by (Shannon) mutual information. Knowing the maximum amount of information that an intruder can gain is important for post-processing purposes, and we mainly focus on that side in the thesis. Renyi information is also useful especially when post-processing is considered. The scope of this thesis …