We give a security proof of quantum cryptography based entirely onentanglement purification. Our proof applies to all possible attacks(individual and coherent). It implies the security of cryptographic keysdistributed with the help of entanglement-based quantum repeaters. We prove thesecurity of the obtained quantum channel which may not only be used for quantumkey distribution, but also for secure, albeit noisy, transmission of quantuminformation.
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