Eavesdropping on the BB84 Protocol using Phase-Covariant Cloning: Experimental Results
Published in Preprint, 2024
Recommended citation: B. Pigott, E. Campolongo, H. Routray, and A. Khan, "Eavesdropping on the BB84 Protocol using Phase-Covariant Cloning : Experimental Results." https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16284
Though the BB84 protocol has provable security over a noiseless quantum channel, the security is not proven over current noisy technology. The level of tolerable error on such systems is still unclear, as is how much information about a raw key may be obtained by an eavesdropper. We develop a reproducible test to determine the security–or lack thereof–of the protocol in practice. This enables us to obtain an experimental estimate of the information that can be obtained using asymmetric phase-covariant cloning to eavesdrop on the BB84 protocol.