Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems



Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination

FREE-DOWNLOAD L Lydersen, C Wiechers, C Wittmann, D Elser… – Nature photonics, 2010 –
The peculiar properties of quantum mechanics allow two remote parties to communicate a
private, secret key, which is protected from eavesdropping by the laws of physics 1, 2, 3, 4 .
So-called quantum key distribution (QKD) implementations always rely on detectors to