基于Bell态的量子秘密共享协议

为提高效率,提出了一种直接共享经典信息的量子秘密共享协议。协议利用Pauli矩阵的特殊性质将经典信息编码在Bell态上实现秘密共享,为了检测是否存在窃听者,通过随机插入诱骗光子的方法确保传输的安全。分析表明该协议是安全的,效率可以达到1个Be11态共享2 bit经典信息。     

Deterministic secure quantum communication without unitary operation based on high-dimensional entanglement swapping

By analysis of the basic properties of entanglement swapping of high-dimensional Bell states,a universal and general deterministic secure quantum communication(DSQC)protocol is proposed,in which unitary operation is not required.By making use of the results of high-dimensional Bell measurement,the sender and the receiver can encode and decode the message respectively by performing the modular addition and subtraction.Two mutually complementary bases are constructed;and according to the property of mutual complement,a method for checking security of the high-dimensional quantum channel is put forward.Some common attack strategies are analyzed,and the corresponding error rates are calculated.Then the upper bound of the threshold of error rate is deduced.     

基于量子理论的多方秘密共享方案的构建

量子的独特性质使它在秘密共享方面有着很大的应用前景,但在现实情况下秘密代理者的数目会根据实际情况的不同而发生变化。本文利用五粒子或六粒子的纠缠量子态构造了五和六秘密代理者数目下的量子多方秘密共享方案,在此基础上将其拓展并构建了在n个秘密代理者情况下的秘密共享方案。这使得秘密共享者在秘密代理者数目发生变化时能够选取合适的量子秘密共享方案。此外,在每种秘密代理者数目情形下都使用基于量子纠缠的量子隐形传态的方式实现秘密共享,进一步增加了方案的可选择性。最后,对提出的量子多方秘密共享方案的安全性进行了分析。     

基于高维纠缠交换的无酉操作确定性安全量子通信

在分析高维Bell态纠缠交换基本性质的基础上,提出不需要任何酉操作、具有通用性和一般性的高维确定性安全量子通信方案.利用高维Bell测量的结果,发送方和接收方分别进行模加、减运算即可编码、解码信息.构造了两组互补的基,并根据其互补性质,提出了检测高维量子信道是否安全的方法.详细分析了几种常用攻击策略,并计算了这些攻击所引起的错误率,进而推导出通信双方需设定的错误率阈值的上界.     

利用纠缠态实现任意N粒子量子态的秘密共享

针对量子秘密共享的量子态局限于最大纠缠态的问题,提出一种实现任意N位量子态的秘密共享方案。该方案使用纠缠态作为量子信道,首先发送方对粒子进行Bell基测量,然后接收方Bob或Charlie使用单粒子测量,最后参与者根据Alice和单粒子测量得到的结果,选用合适的联合幺正变换对量子态进行相应的变换,这样可以实现任意N粒子量子态的秘密共享。该方案能够抵御外部窃听者和内部不诚实参与者的攻击,安全性分析表明此方案是安全的。     

基于GHZ态的无酉操作多方量子秘密共享方案

为了简化多方量子秘密共享协议,利用Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger（GHZ）态和互补基特性,提出了一种简单高效的多方量子秘密共享方案。该方案无需进行任何酉操作,发送方和多个接收方之间只需一次量子通信,并使用互补基进行测量即可完成信道安全检测和秘密共享。除去少量用于检测量子信道安全的粒子,其余每个GHZ态粒子共享一个比特的经典信息。安全性分析表明该方案是安全可靠的。     

Quantum secret sharing without monitoring signal disturbance

Secret sharing, in which a dealer wants to split a secret in such a way that any unauthorized subsets of parties are unable to reconstruct it, plays a key role in cryptography. The security of quantum protocols for the task is guaranteed by the fact that Eve’s any strategies to obtain secret information from encoded quantum states should cause a disturbance in the signal. Here, we propose a quantum secret sharing (classical information) scheme for N parties which is no longer needed to monitor signal disturbance. Comparing to existing qudit-based schemes, this scheme has obvious advantages in feasibility and scalability. Our work paves a novel way for quantum secret sharing.     

基于团簇态的量子秘密共享方案

提出了一个基于团簇态的量子秘密共享方案,发送者通过Pauli操作将经典秘密信息编码在团簇态上进行分发,接收者通过联合测量实现秘密共享。协议插入EPR对作为诱骗态以防止窃听,通过安全性分析证明本协议是安全的,可以抵抗截获-测量、截获-重发和纠缠-测量攻击。此外,协议传输一个四粒子团簇态可以共享四个经典比特信息,量子比特效率达到100%。     

基于量子秘密共享的盲签名方案

提出了一种基于量子秘密共享的盲签名方案。其中量子秘密共享中用到了Bell纠缠和诱骗光子;盲签名使用的是异或操作和Hash函数。Bell纠缠是纠缠态中最简单的纠缠,而异或操作也是简单易操作;诱骗光子和Hash函数保证了安全性,将这些结合的本方案简单安全易实现,同时还保证了信息的盲性、签名消息的不可否认和不可伪造性。     

利用最大真纠缠六方态共享经典秘密信息

纠缠是一种重要的量子信息资源,Bell态、GHZ态等纠缠态被广泛用于量子秘密共享中。Borras等人发现的最大真六方纠缠态在任意的双方割之间具有最大的纠缠值,已经被证明可用于量子隐形传态,并表现良好的性质。通过分析Borras态的结构,利用广义Schmidt分解工具,构造了一个具体的量子秘密共享协议:事先在Alice和4个代理之间共享一个Borras纠缠态,Alice拥有其中2个qubit,代理们分别拥有它的1个qubit,则Alice可在代理间共享2bit经典信息。     

Comment on “High-dimensional deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing without unitary operations”

Recently, a high-dimensional deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing (DMQSS) scheme was proposed (Liu ZH et al in Quantum Inf Process 1–11 2011). However, we show that the scheme is vulnerable to a specific kind of collusion attack. In the worst case, ${\left\lfloor n/2\right\rfloor+1}$ agents can collude elaborately to reveal the dealer’s secret without the help of the other agents. We present the attack strategy in details and also give two possible improvements to resist the proposed collision attack.     

基于高维纠缠态的量子密钥分发协议

为了提高量子密钥分发的效率和安全性,利用高维Hilbert空间中的Bell态和Hadamard门设计了一种量子密钥分发协议。首先通过量子态的动态演变验证了三维Bell纠缠态在Z基和X基下具有不同的表示特性,然后以此为基础进行协议设计,其中利用Z基测量来检测窃听,利用X基测量来产生密钥。安全性分析表明,该协议可以抵抗截获重发、纠缠附加粒子和特洛伊木马三种常见的攻击。最后将协议与其他方案进行了比较,该协议在保证量子比特效率50%的基础上,安全性也有所提升。     

Controller-independent bidirectional quantum direct communication

Recently, Chang et al. (Quantum Inf Process 14:3515–3522, 2015) proposed a controlled bidirectional quantum direct communication protocol using Bell states. In this work, the significance of Bell states, which are being used as initial states in Chang et al. protocol, is elucidated. The possibility of preparing initial state based on the secret message of the communicants is explored. In doing so, the controller-independent bidirectional quantum direct communication protocol has evolved naturally. It is shown that any communicant cannot read the secret message without knowing the initial states generated by the other communicant. Further, intercept-and-resend attack and information leakage can be avoided. The proposed protocol is like a conversion between two persons without the help of any third person with high-level security.     

Quantum private comparison protocol with d-dimensional Bell states

In this paper, a quantum private comparison protocol with Bell states is proposed. In the protocol, two participants can determine the relationship between their secret inputs in size, with the assistance of a semi-trusted third party. The presented protocol can ensure fairness, correctness, and security. Meanwhile, all the particles undergo only a one-way trip, which improves the efficiency and security of the communication. Furthermore, only Bell states are exploited in the implementation of the protocol, and two participants are just required having the ability to perform single particle operations, which make the presented protocol more feasible in technique.     

Efficient quantum dialogue using entangled states and entanglement swapping without information leakage

We propose a novel quantum dialogue protocol by using the generalized Bell states and entanglement swapping. In the protocol, a sequence of ordered two-qutrit entangled states acts as quantum information channel for exchanging secret messages directly and simultaneously. Besides, a secret key string is shared between the communicants to overcome information leakage. Different from those previous information leakage-resistant quantum dialogue protocols, the particles, composed of one of each pair of entangled states, are transmitted only one time in the proposed protocol. Security analysis shows that our protocol can overcome information leakage and resist several well-known attacks. Moreover, the efficiency of our scheme is acceptable.     

Bell state entanglement swappings over collective noises and their applications on quantum cryptography

This work presents two robust entanglement swappings against two types of collective noises, respectively. The entanglement swapping can be achieved by performing two Bell state measurements on two logical qubits that come from two original logical Bell states, respectively. Two fault tolerant quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocols are further proposed to demonstrate the usefulness of the newly proposed entanglement swappings. The proposed QSS schemes are not only free from Trojan horse attacks but also quite efficient. Moreover, by adopting two Bell state measurements instead of four-qubit joint measurements, the proposed protocols are practical in combating collective noises. The proposed fault tolerant entanglement swapping can also be used to replace the traditional Bell-state entanglement swapping used in various quantum cryptographic protocols to provide robustness in combating collective noises.     

A dynamic multiparty quantum direct secret sharing based on generalized GHZ states

This paper proposes a new dynamic multiparty quantum direct secret sharing (DQDSS) using mutually unbiased measurements based on generalized GHZ states. Without any unitary operations, an agent can obtain a shadow of the secret by simply performing a measurement on single photons. In the proposed scheme, multiple agents can be added or deleted and the shared secret need not be changed. Our DQDSS scheme has several advantages. The dealer is not required to retain any photons and can further share a predetermined key instead of a random key to the agents. Agents can update their shadows periodically, and the dealer does not need to be online. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can resist not only the existing attacks, but also cheating attacks from dishonest agents. Hence, compared to some famous DQSS schemes, the proposed scheme is more efficient and more practical. Finally, we establish a mathematical model about the efficiency and security of the scheme and perform simulation analyses with different parameters using MATLAB.     

具有前摄能力的可公开验证秘密共享

可公开验证秘密共享是一种特殊的秘密共享,由分发者分发的秘密份额不仅能被份额持有者自己验证,而且可以被其他任何成员验证.然而,对于一般的可公开验证秘密共享,敌手可能使用很长的时间才能攻破门限个份额服务器,获得秘密.为了解决这个问题,提出了第一个具有前摄能力的可公开验证的秘密共享方案,该方案不仅能够公开验证份额的正确性,而且具有份额定期更新的性质,比其它一般可公开验证秘密共享方案更安全,能够更好地满足各种应用的安全需求.     

Quantum secret sharing protocol through noisy channel with application in visual cryptography

This study presents a quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocol designed using Grover's search algorithm in a noisy environment. The proposed protocol utilizes Grover's three-particle quantum state. The proposed scheme is divided into secret information sharing and eavesdropping checking. The dealer prepares an encoded state by encoding the classical information as a marked state and shares the states' qubits between three participants. Using the amplitude-damping noise and the phase-damping noise as conventional noisy channels, it can be demonstrated that secret information can be conveyed between participants with some information lost. The security analysis shows the scheme is stringent against malicious participants or eavesdroppers. The simulation analysis is done on the cloud platform IBM-QE thereby showing the practical feasibility of the scheme. Finally, an application of the proposed scheme is demonstrated in visual cryptography using the GNEQR representation of images.     

Multi-party quantum secret sharing with the single-particle quantum state to encode the information

We present a three-party quantum secret sharing (QSS) scheme via the entangled Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state. In this scheme, the sender Alice encodes her arbitrary secret information by means of preparing a single-particle quantum state. The agent Bob obtains his shared information according to his hobby, while Charlie can easily calculate his shared information. The proposed scheme is secure. It is shown that even a dishonest agent, who may avoid the security checking, cannot obtain any useful information. Moreover, we further investigate the multi-party QSS scheme which allows most agents to predetermine their information.