Errata — Quantum Cryptography and Secret-Key Distillation

Gilles Van Assche

Introduction

This document lists the known errors in the book Quantum Cryptography and Secret-Key Distillation published by Cambridge University Press (2006).

In Chapter 1

• Page 12. In the first sentence of Section 1.1.4, one should read: For more information, I would like to point out […].

In Chapter 7

• Page 108. The last sentence of the third bullet should be: One can easily check that it works provided that m>l and L>2⁢l (instead of m>2⁢l).
• Page 109. In the next-to-last paragraph, the formula of the inverse NTT misses a factor L-1modp=-ν and the subscript of T should be j. The correct formula is ti=-ν∑j=0L-1Tj⁢ω-i⁢j.
• Page 109. In the last paragraph, one should read: In Z786 433, a possible generator is g=11 […]. The smallest generator is in fact g=10, although any generator can be used.

In the bibliography

• Page 250. In entry [22], the correct page numbers are 487–496.
• Page 256. In entry [149], the authors are: G. Ribordy, J.-D. Gautier, N. Gisin, O. Guinnard and H. Zbinden.

Last updated: 2007-02-22