| ▲ | mswphd 5 hours ago | |
BB84 (and QKD overall) requires authenticated channels. You have to get those somewhere. You can get them from an information-theoretically secure MAC, but it has significant downsides. You can get them with computationally secure primitives, but then there's no point in using QKD in the first place. You cannot instantiate QKD securely without one of those two choices though. | ||