Title :
Brief history of quantum cryptography: a personal perspective
Author :
Brassard, Gilles
Author_Institution :
Departement d´´Informatique et de Recherche Operationnelle, Univ. de Montreal, Que.
Abstract :
Quantum cryptography is the only approach to privacy ever proposed that allows two parties (who do not share a long secret key ahead of time) to communicate with provably perfect secrecy under the nose of an eavesdropper endowed with unlimited computational power and whose technology is limited by nothing but the fundamental laws of nature. This essay provides a personal historical perspective on the field. For the sake of liveliness, the style is purposely that of a spontaneous after-dinner speech. It will be seen that the IEEE played a ubiquitous role in this tale
Keywords :
private key cryptography; quantum cryptography; IEEE; quantum cryptography; secret key; Cryptography; History; Nose; Pervasive computing; Privacy; Quantum computing; Quantum entanglement; Quantum mechanics; Speech; Time sharing computer systems;
Conference_Titel :
Theory and Practice in Information-Theoretic Security, 2005. IEEE Information Theory Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Awaji Island
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9491-7
DOI :
10.1109/ITWTPI.2005.1543949
