In the method of the present invention, one of each pair of photons
connected through entanglement is distributed to a transmitting station,
relay stations and a receiving station. After the photons reach secure
sites, such as the relay stations, a base for detecting photons is
determined between adjacent sites, and then photons are detected in each
site, which makes it possible to obtain a secret key used for secure
information transmission between relay stations using bases coincide with
each other every time. Also, in the present invention, a high-quality
random number sequence serving as a secret key is automatically generated
in a physical manner every time by detecting a superposition state of an
entanglement and procedures corresponding to those in which a secret key
itself is transmitted in a form of a quantum cryptogram are performed.