Experimental quantum forgery of quantum optical money

Quantum money could protect currency against cryptographic attacks Traditional cash is being gradually replaced by digital payments and transactions with digital currency, such as bitcoin. Digital transactions are currently protected by cryptographic protocols. However, these protocols are potential...

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Autores principales: Karol Bartkiewicz, Antonín Černoch, Grzegorz Chimczak, Karel Lemr, Adam Miranowicz, Franco Nori
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:bcd0e65b84b1488fbda96121d0d5adf92021-12-02T15:10:12ZExperimental quantum forgery of quantum optical money10.1038/s41534-017-0010-x2056-6387https://doaj.org/article/bcd0e65b84b1488fbda96121d0d5adf92017-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-017-0010-xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2056-6387Quantum money could protect currency against cryptographic attacks Traditional cash is being gradually replaced by digital payments and transactions with digital currency, such as bitcoin. Digital transactions are currently protected by cryptographic protocols. However, these protocols are potentially susceptible to attacks using quantum factoring algorithm. If quantum factoring is implemented on quantum computers, the resulting breach of security could make today’s digital currency obsolete. It is possible, however, to replace classical digital money with so-called quantum money, i.e., sequences of quantum bits copy-protected by their quantum nature. This paper reports on the experimental quantum optical implementation of a quantum money protocol, which was experimentally tested regarding its resistance to quantum counterfeiting based on the best physically-possible copying of individual unknown quantum bits.Karol BartkiewiczAntonín ČernochGrzegorz ChimczakKarel LemrAdam MiranowiczFranco NoriNature PortfolioarticlePhysicsQC1-999Electronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95ENnpj Quantum Information, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
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Electronic computers. Computer science
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Karol Bartkiewicz
Antonín Černoch
Grzegorz Chimczak
Karel Lemr
Adam Miranowicz
Franco Nori
Experimental quantum forgery of quantum optical money
description Quantum money could protect currency against cryptographic attacks Traditional cash is being gradually replaced by digital payments and transactions with digital currency, such as bitcoin. Digital transactions are currently protected by cryptographic protocols. However, these protocols are potentially susceptible to attacks using quantum factoring algorithm. If quantum factoring is implemented on quantum computers, the resulting breach of security could make today’s digital currency obsolete. It is possible, however, to replace classical digital money with so-called quantum money, i.e., sequences of quantum bits copy-protected by their quantum nature. This paper reports on the experimental quantum optical implementation of a quantum money protocol, which was experimentally tested regarding its resistance to quantum counterfeiting based on the best physically-possible copying of individual unknown quantum bits.
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author Karol Bartkiewicz
Antonín Černoch
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Karel Lemr
Adam Miranowicz
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title Experimental quantum forgery of quantum optical money
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