A quarter century of quantum key distribution: A personal perspective

by Prof. Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal)

Friday 27 Jun 2008, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

Aula 5 (Dip. di Fisica - ed. E.Fermi)

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) makes it possible for two participants toexchange messages in provable perfect confidentiality under the nose of aneavesdropper whose computational power is unlimited and whose technologyis restricted only by the accepted laws of physics. Despite a classicaltheorem of Shannon to the contrary, this is possible even though the twoparticipants do not share ahead of