Learnt Attacks on Quantum Key Distribution under Channel Noise and Device Drift

Quantum key distribution QKD links are provisioned from security analyses of stationary channels, whereas the devices that determine the channel drift between recalibrations. Whether an eavesdropper who cannot alter the channel's own noise gains by following that drift has not been quantified...

Eve'S Forgery Probability from Her False Acceptance Probability: Interactive Authentication, Holevo Information and the Min-Entropy

We obtain estimates for Eve's forgery probability, namely the probability that she is able to forge a message which Alice or Bob mistakenly accept over a noisy Quantum channel for generating a shared Quantum secret key. This probability is related to Eve's success probability obtained in a previo...