Quantum Key Distribution With several intercept-resend attacks Via A Depolarizing Channel

Mustapha Dehmani, Mohamed Errahmani, Hamid Ez-Zahraouy, Abdelilah Benyoussef

Published 2013-02-28Version 1

The disturbance effect of a depolarizing channel on the security of the quantum key distribution of the four state BB84 protocol with multiple sequentiel intercept and resend attacks of many eavesdroppers, has been studied. The quantum bit error rate and the mutual information are computed for arbitray number of attacks.