71 research outputs found
Quantum Private Comparison: A Review
As an important branch of quantum secure multiparty computation, quantum
private comparison (QPC) has attracted more and more attention recently. In
this paper, according to the quantum implementation mechanism that these
protocols used, we divide these protocols into three categories: The quantum
cryptography QPC, the superdense coding QPC, and the entanglement swapping QPC.
And then, a more in-depth analysis on the research progress, design idea, and
substantive characteristics of corresponding QPC categories is carried out,
respectively. Finally, the applications of QPC and quantum secure multi-party
computation issues are discussed and, in addition, three possible research
mainstream directions are pointed out
Multi-Party Quantum Summation Based on Quantum Teleportation
We present a secure multi-party quantum summation protocol based on quantum teleportation, in which a malicious, but non-collusive, third party (TP) helps compute the summation. In our protocol, TP is in charge of entanglement distribution and Bell states are shared between participants. Users encode the qubits in their hand according to their private bits and perform Bell-state measurements. After obtaining participants’ measurement results, TP can figure out the summation. The participants do not need to send their encoded states to others, and the protocol is therefore congenitally free from Trojan horse attacks. In addition, our protocol can be made secure against loss errors, because the entanglement distribution occurs only once at the beginning of our protocol. We show that our protocol is secure against attacks by the participants as well as the outsiders
Multi-party quantum key agreement protocol with authentication
Utilizing the advantage of quantum entanglement swapping, a multi-party
quantum key agreement protocol with authentication is proposed. In this
protocol, a semi-trusted third party is introduced, who prepares Bell states,
and sends one particle to multiple participants respectively. After that the
participants can share a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state by entanglement
swapping. Finally, these participants measure the particles in their hands and
obtain an agreement key. Here, classical hash function and Hadamard operation
are utilized to authenticate the identity of participants. The correlations of
GHZ states ensure the security of the proposed protocol. To illustrated it
detailly, the security of this protocol against common attacks is analyzed,
which shows that the proposed protocol is secure in theory
A novel two-party semiquantum key distribution protocol based on GHZ-like states
In this paper, we propose a novel two-party semiquantum key distribution
(SQKD) protocol by only employing one kind of GHZ-like state. The proposed SQKD
protocol can create a private key shared between one quantum party with
unlimited quantum abilities and one classical party with limited quantum
abilities without the existence of a third party. The proposed SQKD protocol
doesn't need the Hadamard gate or quantum entanglement swapping. Detailed
security analysis turns out that the proposed SQKD protocol can resist various
famous attacks from an outside eavesdropper, such as the Trojan horse attacks,
the entangle-measure attack, the double CNOT attacks, the measure-resend attack
and the intercept-resend attack.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
Quantum e-commerce: A comparative study of possible protocols for online shopping and other tasks related to e-commerce
A set of quantum protocols for online shopping is proposed and analyzed to
establish that it is possible to perform secure online shopping using different
types of quantum resources. Specifically, a single photon based, a Bell state
based and two 3-qubit entangled state based quantum online shopping schemes are
proposed. The Bell state based scheme, being a completely orthogonal state
based protocol, is fundamentally different from the earlier proposed schemes
which were based on conjugate coding. One of the 3-qubit entangled state based
scheme is build on the principle of entanglement swapping which enables us to
accomplish the task without transmission of the message encoded qubits through
the channel. Possible ways of generalizing the entangled state based schemes
proposed here to the schemes which use multiqubit entangled states is also
discussed. Further, all the proposed protocols are shown to be free from the
limitations of the recently proposed protocol of Huang et al. (Quantum Inf.
Process. 14, 2211-2225, 2015) which allows the buyer (Alice) to change her
order at a later time (after initially placing the order and getting it
authenticated by the controller). The proposed schemes are also compared with
the existing schemes using qubit efficiency.Comment: It's shown that quantum e-commerce is not a difficult task, and it
can be done in various way
Semiquantum secret sharing by using x-type states
In this paper, a semiquantum secret sharing (SQSS) protocol based on x-type
states is proposed, which can accomplish the goal that only when two classical
communicants cooperate together can they extract the shared secret key of a
quantum communicant. Detailed security analysis turns out that this protocol
can resist the participant attack and the outside attack. This protocol has
some merits: (1) it only requires one kind of quantum entangled state as the
initial quantum resource; (2) it doesn't employ quantum entanglement swapping
or unitary operations; and (3) it needn't share private keys among different
participants beforehand.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure, 3 table
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