Abstract

The security of the quantum secret key plays a critical role in quantum communications. Thus far, one problem that still exists in existing protocols is the leakage of the length of the secret key. In this letter, based on variable quantum encoding algorithms, we propose a secure quantum key distribution scheme, which can overcome the security problem involving the leakage of the secret key. Security analysis shows that the proposed scheme is both secure and effective.

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