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IMPROVING THE CONTROL STRATEGY IN TWO-WAY DETERMINISTIC CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS

ANITA EUSEBI

School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy

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STEFANO MANCINI

School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219749911007939Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We introduce a new control strategy on a two-way deterministic cryptographic scheme, which relies on a suitable unitary transformation rather than a quantum measurement. The study is developed for d-ary alphabets and the particular choice of the transformation works when d is an odd prime power. It leads to an improvement of the protocol security, which we prove to increase with the alphabet order d.

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