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Quantum Direct Communication Wiretapping

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Computer Networks (CN 2017)

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The analyses of the ping-pong communication paradigm anticipated possibility to undetectably wiretap some variants of quantum direct communication. The only proposed so far instantiation of attacks of this type is formulated for the qubit based version of the protocol and it implicitly assumes the existence of losses. The essential features of undetectable attack transformations are identified in the study and the new generic eavesdropping scheme is proposed. The scheme does not refer to the properties of the vacuum state, so it is fully consistent with the absence of losses assumption. It is formulated for the space of any dimension and it can be used to design the family of circuits that enable undetectable eavesdropping.

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Author acknowledges support by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education funding for statutory activities and Rector of Silesian University of Technology grant number 02/030/RGJ17/0025 in the area of research and development.

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  1. Institute of Electronics, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Piotr Zawadzki

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    Michał Sawicki

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Zawadzki, P. (2017). Quantum Direct Communication Wiretapping. In: Gaj, P., Kwiecień, A., Sawicki, M. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 718. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59767-6_23

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