Cryptography Basics

• Basic Cryptography Powerpoint viewgraph
• Quantum Cryptography:
  • A Bibliography of Quantum Cryptography by Gilles Brassard, http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/CRYPTO/Biblio-QC.html
  • Bennett, C. H., Bessette, F., Brassard, G., Salvail, L. and Smolin, J., "Experimental quantum cryptography", [ D / P / G ] Journal of Cryptology, vol. 5, no. 1, 1992, pp. 3 - 28. See Chapter 4 for the Intercept/Resend and Beamsplitting attack on QKD. Appendix A.1 has proof of the defense.
  • Scott Sage's short paper section on QKD.