Eavesdropping on the quantum dialogue protocol in lossy channel

We present an improved eavesdropping scheme on the quantum dialogue protocol in lossy channel,which is based on the strategies of W’ojcik [Phys.Rev.Lett.90 157901 (2003)] and ZML [Phys.Lett.A 333 46 (2004)] attack schemes.We show that our attack scheme doubles the domain of Eve’s eavesdropping and Eve can gain more information of the communication with less risk of being detected.Finally,a possible improvement for the dialogue protocol security is proposed.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Two-Photon Four-Qubit Cluster States

In a quantum secure direct communication protocol, two remote parties can transmit the secret message directly without first generating a key to encrypt them. A quantum secure direct communication protocol using two-photon four-qubit cluster states is presented. The presented scheme can achieve a higher efficiency in transmission and source capacity compared with the proposed quantum secure direct communication protocols with cluster states, and the security of the protocol is also discussed.     

保密多方量子求和

给出基于非正交态的量子保密模加法方案，允许累加者把一个数保密地累加在一个未知数上.提出的保密多方量子求和方案对于窃取者是渐进安全的，n-1方的共谋攻击不会使得另一方泄露全部信息.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication and Quantum Sealed-Bid Auction with EPR Pairs

I present a new protocol for three-party quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) with a set of ordered M Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs. In the scheme, by performing two unitary operations and Bell state measurements, it is shown that the three legitimate parties can exchange their respectivesecret message simultaneously. Then I modify it for an experimentally feasible and secure quantum sealed-bid auction (QSBD) protocol. Furthermore, I also analyze the security of the protocol, and the scheme is proven to be secure against the intercept-and-resend attack, the disturbance attack and the entangled-and-measure attack.     

Three-Party Simultaneous Quantum Secure Direct Communication Scheme with EPR Pairs

We present a scheme for three-party simultaneous quantum secure direct communication by using EPR pairs. In the scheme, three legitimate parties can simultaneously exchange their secret messages. The scheme is also proven to be secure against the intercept-and-resend attack, the disturbance attack and the entangled-and- measure attack.     

Parametric down-conversion with local operation and two-way classical communication

The decoy-state quantum key distribution protocol suggested by Adachi et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 180503 (2007)) is proven to be secure and feasible with current techniques. It owns two attractive merits,i.e.,its longer secure transmission distance and more convenient operation design. In this paper,we first improve the protocol with the aid of local operation and two-way classical communication (2-LOCC). After our modifications,the secure transmission distance is increased by about 20 km,which will make the protocol more practicable.     

Quantum Secure Communication Scheme with W State

We present a quantum secure communication scheme using three-qubit W state. It is unnecessary for the present scheme to use alternative measurement or Bell basis measurement. Compared with the quantum secure direct communication scheme proposed by Cao et at. [H.J. Cao and H.S. Song, Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 （2006） 290], in our scheme, the detection probability for an eavesdropper＇s attack increases from 8.3% to 25%. We also show that our scheme is secure for a noise quantum channel.     

基于Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger态的控制量子安全直接通讯

我们利用Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ)态,提出了一个控制量子安全直接通讯方案.在方案中,我们不仅分析了这个方案的安全性,而且指出了这个方案可以有效地抵御截取再发送袭击和干扰袭击.     

Cryptanalysis of the Efficient Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication and Authentication by Using Four Particle Cluster States Protocol

It shows that there are some serious security issues in the controlled quantum secure direct communication (CQSDC) with authentication protocol based on four particle cluster states via quantum one-time pad and local unitary operations. Some information of the identity strings of the receiver and the controller can be stolen without being detected by the intercept-selectively-measure-resend (ISMR) attack. Furthermore, an eavesdropper (Eve) can eavesdrop on some information of the secret message that the sender transmits. In addition, the receiver can obtain half of information about the secret message without any active attack and the permission of the controller, which is not allowed in a secure CQSDC protocol. The receiver can take the ISMR attack to obtain more information about the secret message without the permission of the controller. If running the protocol many times, the identity strings of the receiver and the controller can be completely acquired by Eve. Finally, the original CQSDC protocol is improved to a secure one.

     

Modification Attack on QSDC with Authentication and the Improvement

Recently, Yu et al. [Int. J. Theor. Phys., 2012, doi:10.1007/s10773-012-1336-y] proposed a quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) with authentication using two non-orthogonal states. This study points out a pitfall in Yu et al.’s scheme, in which an eavesdropper can deliberately modify the message without being detected. Furthermore, an enhanced scheme is proposed to avoid the modification attack.     

Deterministic Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Dense Coding and Continuous Variable Operations

We propose a deterministic quantum secure direct two check photon sequences are used to check the securities of the communication protocol by using dense coding. The channels between the message sender and the receiver. The continuous variable operations instead of the usual discrete unitary operations are performed on the travel photons so that the security of the present protocol can be enhanced. Therefore some specific attacks such as denial-of-service attack, intercept-measure-resend attack and invisible photon attack can be prevented in ideal quantum channel. In addition, the scheme is still secure in noise channel. Furthurmore, this protocol has the advantage of high capacity and can be realized in the experiment.     

Analysis and Improvement of Large Payload Bidirectional Quantum Secure Direct Communication Without Information Leakage

As we know, the information leakage problem should be avoided in a secure quantum communication protocol. Unfortunately, it is found that this problem does exist in the large payload bidirectional quantum secure direct communication (BQSDC) protocol (Ye Int. J. Quantum. Inf. 11(5), 1350051 2013) which is based on entanglement swapping between any two Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. To be specific, one half of the information interchanged in this protocol is leaked out unconsciously without any active attack from an eavesdropper. Afterward, this BQSDC protocol is revised to the one without information leakage. It is shown that the improved BQSDC protocol is secure against the general individual attack and has some obvious features compared with the original one.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with W State

A new theoretical scheme for quantum secure direct communication is proposed, where four-qubit symmetric W state functions as quantum channel. It is shown that two legitimate users can directly transmit the secret messages by using Bell-basis measurements and classical communication. The scheme is completely secure if the quantum channel is perfect. Even if the quantum channel is unsecured, it is still possible for two users to perform their secure communication. One bit secret message can be transmitted by sending a bit classical information.     

Reexamining the Security of Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication by Using Four Particle Cluster States

A controlled quantum secure direct communication protocol (Zhang et al. in Int. J. Theor. Phys. 48:2971–2976, 2009) by using four particle cluster states was proposed recently. Yang et al. presented an attack with fake entangled particles (FEP attack) and gave an improvement (Yang et al. in Int. J. Theor. Phys. 50:395–400, 2010). In this paper, we reexamine the protocol’s security and discover that, Bob can also take a different attack, disentanglement attack, to obtain Alice’s secret message without controller’s permission. Moreover, our attack strategy also works for Yang’s improvement.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication Based on Four-Qubit Cluster States

A novel quantum secure direct communication scheme based on four-qubit cluster states is proposed. In this scheme, the quantum channel between the sender Alice and the receiver Bob consists of an ordered sequence of cluster states which are prepared by Alice. After ensuring the security of quantum channel, Alice prepares the encoded Bell-state sequence, and performs Bell-basis measurements on the qubits at hand. Then Alice tells the measured results to Bob, and Bob also performs Bell-basis measurements on his own qubits. Finally Bob can get the secret information through the analysis of their measured results. In our scheme, the qubits carrying the secret message do not need to be transmitted in public channel. We show this scheme is determinate and secure.     

Multi‐Party Semi‐Quantum Key Distribution Protocol With Four‐Particle Cluster States

The application of semi‐quantum conception can provide unconditional secure communication for communicators without quantum capabilities. A semi‐quantum key distribution (SQKD) protocol based on four‐particle cluster states is put forward, which can achieve key distribution among one quantum party and two classical parties simultaneously. Furthermore, this protocol can be expanded to the χ‐party ( $\chi >3$) communication scheme. Compared with the existing multi‐party SQKD protocol, the proposed protocol and the extended one own more excellent time efficiency and qubit efficiency. The security of the proposed SQKD protocol under ideal circumstances is validated while the key rate under non‐ideal conditions is calculated.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Cluster State

We propose a novel protocol for quantum secure direct communication with cluster states. In this protocol, the two legitimate users, Alice and Bob, can directly transmit the secret messages by using the Bell-basis measurement and Z-basis measurement, respectively, in classical communication. Since our quantum secure direct communication protocol is based on the cluster state, it is easily processed by a one-way quantum computer.     

Quantum secure direct communication with Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type state （GHZ state） over noisy channels

We propose a quantum error-rejection scheme for direct communication with three-qubit quantum codes based on the direct communication of secret messages without any secret key shared in advance. Given the symmetric and independent errors of the transmitted qubits, our scheme can tolerate a bit of error rate up to 33.1%, thus the protocol is deterministically secure against any eavesdropping attack even in a noisy channel.     

Quantum steganography with large payload based on entanglement swapping of χ-type entangled states

In this paper, we firstly propose a new simple method to calculate entanglement swapping of χ-type entangled states, and then present a novel quantum steganography protocol with large payload. The new protocol adopts entanglement swapping to build up the hidden channel within quantum secure direct communication with χ-type entangled states for securely transmitting secret messages. Comparing with the previous quantum steganographies, the capacity of the hidden channel is much higher, which is increased to eight bits. Meanwhile, due to the quantum uncertainty theorem and the no-cloning theorem its imperceptibility is proved to be great in the analysis, and its security is also analyzed in detail, which is proved that intercept-resend attack, measurement-resend attack, ancilla attack, man-in-the-middle attack or even Dos(Denial of Service) attack couldn't threaten it. As a result, the protocol can be applied in various fields of quantum communication.     

Deterministic secure quantum communication against collective-dephasing noise by using EPR pairs and auxiliary photons

A deterministic secure quantum communication against collective-dephasing noise is proposed. Alice constructs two sets of three-photon bases with EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) pairs in the state |Ψ⁺〉 or |Ψ^-〉 and auxiliary single photons in the state |H〉. And then she sends them to Bob. Bob can get the secret message by his single-photon measurement outcomes and two public message strings from Alice if the quantum channel is secure. The scheme does not need photon storing technique and only single-photon measurement is necessary.