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VULNERABILITY OF "A NOVEL PROTOCOL-AUTHENTICATION ALGORITHM RULING OUT A MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE ATTACK IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY"

AYSAJAN ABIDIN

Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden

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JAN-Å KE LARSSON

Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219749909005754Cited by:7 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this paper, we review and comment on "A novel protocol-authentication algorithm ruling out a man-in-the-middle attack in quantum cryptography" [M. Peev et al., Int. J. Quant. Inf.3 (2005) 225]. In particular, we point out that the proposed primitive is not secure when used in a generic protocol, and needs additional authenticating properties of the surrounding quantum-cryptographic protocol.

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