Principles and background
Quantum cryptography for network securitization - Situation and prospects
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Principles and background
Quantum cryptography for network securitization - Situation and prospects

Author : par Alexios BEVERATOS

Publication date: April 10, 2008 | Lire en français

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1. Principles and background

Alexios BEVERATOS holds a doctorate in physics and is a researcher at the Photonics and Nanostructures Laboratory, LPN CNRS UPR 20, in Marcoussis.

Cryptography comes from the Greek κρύβω (to hide) and γραφή (the written word) and translates the art of hiding the written word. The first traces of its use date back to ancient Greece with the use of the Scytale, but it's only since Caesar's code that cryptography has taken the form it does today.

On the one hand, there's a protocol that dictates how the coding...

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