How much security does Y-00 protocol provide us ?

Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Toshio Hasegawa, Hirokazu Ishizuka, Kentaro Imafuku, Hideki Imai

Published 2003-10-29, updated 2003-10-31Version 2

New quantum cryptography, often called Y-00 protocol, has much higher performance than the conventional quantum cryptographies. It seems that the conventional quantum cryptographic attacks are inefficient at Y-00 protocol as its security is based on the different grounds from that of the conventional ones. We have, then, tried to cryptoanalyze Y-00 protocol in the view of cryptographic communication system. As a result, it turns out that the security of Y-00 protocol is equivalent to that of classical stream cipher.