Breaking the Unbreakable : Exploiting Loopholes in Bell's Theorem to Hack Quantum Cryptography.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jogenfors, Jonathan.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Linköping : Linkopings Universitet, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Theorems
  • List of Acronyms
  • List of Symbols
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • History of Cryptography
  • Fundamental Principles of Cryptography
  • Public-Key Cryptography
  • Cryptography and the Quantum World
  • Outline
  • Included Publications
  • Basic Concepts
  • Linear Algebra
  • Probability Theory
  • Fundamental Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum Key Distribution
  • The BB84 Protocol
  • Security Analysis of BB84
  • Bell's Theorem
  • EPR and Hidden Variables
  • Intuitive Explanation
  • The Black Box Model
  • Ekert's QKD Protocol
  • Device-Independent QKD
  • Loopholes in Bell Experiments
  • The Detection Loophole
  • The Coincidence-Time Loophole
  • Experimental Bell testing
  • Conclusions
  • Energy-Time Entanglement
  • The Franson Interferometer
  • The Postselection Loophole
  • Quantum Hacking
  • The LHV Attack
  • The Blinding Attack
  • Optical Considerations
  • Experimental Demonstration
  • Countermeasures to Quantum Hacking
  • Chaining the Bell Inequality
  • Interferometric Visibility
  • Modified Franson Setups
  • Conclusions
  • Quantum Bitcoin
  • Hashcash
  • Bitcoin
  • Further Blockchain Developments
  • Quantum Money
  • Conclusions
  • Future Work
  • Index
  • Bibliography
  • Publications
  • Energy-Time Entanglement, Elements of Reality, and Local Realism
  • Hacking the Bell Test Using Classical Light in Energy-Time Entanglement-Based Quantum Key Distribution
  • Tight Bounds for the Pearle-Braunstein-Caves Chained Inequality Without the Fair-Coincidence Assumption
  • High-Visibility Time-Bin Entanglement for Testing Chained Bell Inequalities
  • Quantum Bitcoin: An Anonymous and Distributed Currency Secured by the No-Cloning Theorem of Quantum Mechanics
  • Comment on "Franson Interference Generated by a Two-Level System.