Fiber and free-space practical decoy state QKD for both BB84 and SARG04 protocols

Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol

Peter W. Shor, John Preskill · Physical Review Letters · 2000 · 3K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Physics +14

Unconditional Security of Quantum Key Distribution over Arbitrarily Long Distances

Hoi-Kwong Lo, H. F. Chau · Science · 1999 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Physics +11

Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication

Won-Young Hwang · Physical Review Letters · 2003 · 1.8K citations · Full text

Computing, Communication, Physics +9

Beating the Photon-Number-Splitting Attack in Practical Quantum Cryptography

Xiang‐Bin Wang · Physical Review Letters · 2005 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Computing, Physics, Cryptography +8

Limitations on Practical Quantum Cryptography

Gilles Brassard, Norbert Lütkenhaus, Tal Mor et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2000 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Computing, Physics, Cryptography +13