Quantum Cryptography and its Applications
HE Xiang-chu · Communications technology · 2009
This paper first gives a brief introduction of quantum cryptography and several principal quantum effects involved by quantum key; then it describes in detail the development history of quantum cryptography at home, gives some topics in the research of quantum cryptography, including quantum key distribution, quantum signature, quantum identity authentication, quantum encryption, quantum secret-sharing, and their brief descriptions, and analyzes in depth some hindering factors in practical quantum cryptography; finally, the development of quantum cryptography is forecasted.