High-dimensional deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing without unitary operations

A deterministic multiparty quantum secret sharing scheme is put forward, in which Bell states in high-dimensional Hilbert space are used. Only by preforming High-dimensional Bell measurements, all agents can recover the secret according to the dealer??s announcement when collaborating with each other. It shows that unitary operation for encoding deterministic secret is unnecessary in quantum communication. The security of the transmission of the high-dimensional Bell states can be ensured by randomly using one of the two mutually unbiased bases for eavesdropping checking, and thus by which the proposed quantum secret sharing scheme is secure against usual attacks. In addition, the proposed scheme has three advantages: generality, high resource capacity and high security.     

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.     

Efficient quantum secret sharing

An efficient quantum secret sharing scheme is proposed, in which the dealer generates some single particles and then uses the operations of quantum-controlled-not and Hadamard gate to encode a determinate secret into these particles. The participants get their shadows by performing the single-particle measurements on their particles, and even the dealer cannot know their shadows. Compared to the existing schemes, our scheme is more practical within the present technologies.     

Dynamic quantum secret sharing

Based on the entanglement swapping of EPR pairs, a dynamic quantum secret sharing (QSS) scheme is proposed. The scheme has the following dynamic properties. Without modifying the secret shares of old agents, (1) an agent can join or leave the QSS; (2) two QSSs (m parties in the first QSS and n parties in the second QSS) can be integrated into an (m + n)-party QSS. Compared with the existing QSS schemes, the proposed dynamic QSS is more flexible in practical applications.     

Quantum direct secret sharing with efficient eavesdropping-check and authentication based on distributed fountain codes

We propose to use a simple and effective way to achieve secure quantum direct secret sharing. The proposed scheme uses the properties of fountain codes to allow a realization of the physical conditions necessary for the implementation of no-cloning principle for eavesdropping-check and authentication. In our scheme, to achieve a variety of security purposes, nonorthogonal state particles are inserted in the transmitted sequence carrying the secret shares to disorder it. However, the positions of the inserted nonorthogonal state particles are not announced directly, but are obtained by sending degrees and positions of a sequence that are pre-shared between Alice and each Bob. Moreover, they can confirm that whether there exists an eavesdropper without exchanging classical messages. Most importantly, without knowing the positions of the inserted nonorthogonal state particles and the sequence constituted by the first particles from every EPR pair, the proposed scheme is shown to be secure.     

Expansible quantum secret sharing network

In the practical applications, member expansion is a usual demand during the development of a secret sharing network. However, there are few consideration and discussion on network expansibility in the existing quantum secret sharing schemes. We propose an expansible quantum secret sharing scheme with relatively simple and economical quantum resources and show how to split and reconstruct the quantum secret among an expansible user group in our scheme. Its trait, no requirement of any agent’s assistant during the process of member expansion, can help to prevent potential menaces of insider cheating. We also give a discussion on the security of this scheme from three aspects.     

Verifiable threshold quantum secret sharing with sequential communication

A (t, n) threshold quantum secret sharing (QSS) is proposed based on a single d-level quantum system. It enables the (t, n) threshold structure based on Shamir’s secret sharing and simply requires sequential communication in d-level quantum system to recover secret. Besides, the scheme provides a verification mechanism which employs an additional qudit to detect cheats and eavesdropping during secret reconstruction and allows a participant to use the share repeatedly. Analyses show that the proposed scheme is resistant to typical attacks. Moreover, the scheme is scalable in participant number and easier to realize compared to related schemes. More generally, our scheme also presents a generic method to construct new (t, n) threshold QSS schemes based on d-level quantum system from other classical threshold secret sharing.     

Unitary reconstruction of secret for stabilizer-based quantum secret sharing

We propose a unitary procedure to reconstruct quantum secret for a quantum secret sharing scheme constructed from stabilizer quantum error-correcting codes. Erasure correcting procedures for stabilizer codes need to add missing shares for reconstruction of quantum secret, while unitary reconstruction procedures for certain class of quantum secret sharing are known to work without adding missing shares. The proposed procedure also works without adding missing shares.     

Cryptanalysis of dynamic quantum secret sharing

We analyze the security of a dynamic quantum secret sharing scheme. The analysis shows that the first agent and the last one can gain access to the dealer’s master key without the others’ cooperation by a special participant attack in this scheme.     

安全可纠错的权重不同参与者之间的门限方案

Shamir门限秘密共享方案是基于多项式插值的秘密共享门限方案。论文研究的是基于中国剩余定理的权重不同参与者之间秘密共享方案,并考虑了此类门限方案的安全性,最后基于中国剩余定理和纠错方法给出一个简单的安全的权重不同参与者之间的门限方案。     

Multiparty quantum secret sharing with the pure entangled two-photon states

We present a secure multiparty quantum secret sharing scheme. The implementation of this scheme only needs to exploit the pure entangled two-photon pairs, the local unitary operations on single photons and the single-photon measurements with the computational basis, which make it more convenient in a practical application than others. In addition, each pure entangled two-photon pair can carry one bit of classical information and the intrinsic efficiency approaches 100%, since no classical bit needs to be transmitted except those for detection.     

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.     

Multi-party covert communication with steganography and quantum secret sharing

In this paper, we address the “multi-party covert communication”, a stronger notion of security than standard secure multi-party communication. Multi-party covert communication guarantees that the process of it cannot be observed. We propose a scheme for steganographic communication based on a channel hidden within quantum secret sharing (QSS). According to our knowledge nobody has ever raised the scheme, providing us the motivation for this work. To an outside observer, participants will engage in a typical instance of QSS, just like the others. But when the session is over, covert multi-party communication has already been done. Further analysis shows that the amount of hidden information one can acquire is 0, even if either an outside observer guesses the covert communication is carrying on or a dishonest participant is eavesdropping.     

多用户网络量子密码术的改进

针对经典的利用EPR粒子纠缠态互换的量子密钥传输协议存在的问题,它提出了一个在多用户传输网络中,基于3个粒子的最大纠缠态GHZ安全的量子密钥传输协议.改进的量子密钥传输协议在通信节点与控制中心之间通过多个GHZ对完成该密码的安全分配系统.与经典的利用EPR粒子纠缠态互换的量子密钥传输协议相比,在传输网络中,窃听者Eve如果参与了3方的通信,要获得有用信息,必然要不断的引入错误,于是该网络的节点和控制中心将会发现Eve,保证了改进的多用户网络安全性.     

New circular quantum secret sharing for remote agents

This study presents a novel circular quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocol based on the controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate for remote agents. A CNOT gate is able to entangle a Bell state and several single photons to form a multi-particle GHZ state. Using this technique, the proposed QSS scheme is designed in purpose to be congenitally free from the Trojan horse attacks. Moreover, for each shared bit among n party, the qubit efficiency has reached ${\frac{1}{2n+1}}$ , which is the best among the current circular QSS??s.     

基于特殊差分方程的安全可验证门限秘密共享

在秘密共享方案的研究中,一般都进行Shamir（n,t）门限秘密共享方案的研究,该方案是基于多项式插值的门限方案。研究了基于特殊差分方程的门限秘密共享方案,同时,考虑了此类门限方案的安全性,最后基于特殊差分方程给出了安全可验证的门限秘密共享方案。可以得出,给出的门限秘密共享方案的信息率为1/2,且对于防欺诈是无条件安全的。     

Threshold quantum secret sharing based on single qubit

Based on unitary phase shift operation on single qubit in association with Shamir’s (t, n) secret sharing, a (t, n) threshold quantum secret sharing scheme (or (t, n)-QSS) is proposed to share both classical information and quantum states. The scheme uses decoy photons to prevent eavesdropping and employs the secret in Shamir’s scheme as the private value to guarantee the correctness of secret reconstruction. Analyses show it is resistant to typical intercept-and-resend attack, entangle-and-measure attack and participant attacks such as entanglement swapping attack. Moreover, it is easier to realize in physic and more practical in applications when compared with related ones. By the method in our scheme, new (t, n)-QSS schemes can be easily constructed using other classical (t, n) secret sharing.     

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。     

Controlled secret sharing protocol using a quantum cloning circuit

We demonstrate the possibility of controlling the success probability of a secret sharing protocol using a quantum cloning circuit. The cloning circuit is used to clone the qubits containing the encoded information and en route to the intended recipients. The success probability of the protocol depends on the cloning parameters used to clone the qubits. We also establish a relation between the concurrence of initially prepared state, entanglement of the mixed state received by the receivers after cloning scheme and the cloning parameters of cloning machine.