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.

     

Improved Eavesdropping Detection Strategy in Quantum Direct Communication Protocol Based on Five-Particle Cluster State

In order to improve the eavesdropping detection efficiency in a two-step quantum direct communication protocol, an improved eavesdropping detection strategy using the five-particle cluster state is proposed in which the five-particle cluster state is used to detect eavesdroppers. During the security analysis, the method of the entropy theory is introduced, and two detection strategies are compared quantitatively by using the constraint between the information that the eavesdropper can obtain and the interference that has been introduced. If the eavesdroppers intend to obtain all information, the eavesdropping detection rate of the original two-step quantum direct communication protocol by using EPR pair block as detection particles will be 50 %; while the proposed strategy’s detection rate will be 88 %. In the end, the security of the proposed protocol is discussed. The analysis results show that the eavesdropping detection strategy presented is more secure.     

Quantum Secret Sharing of Secure Direct Communication Using One-Time Pad

Instead of sharing some sifted keys, quantum secret sharing of secure direct communication (QSS-SDC) allows a dealer Alice to share her secret message directly with a group of agents, who can then cooperate together to restore her message in a later time. However, we notice that, in order to recover the secret message, most existing QSS-SDC schemes require a quantum memory to store a resulting quantum state. As the technique of quantum memory is still not available today, we present a multiparty QSS-SDC protocol using quantum one time pad, which allows the agents to store their shares with classical binary strings. Moreover, the proposed scheme uses only single photons, which makes it easier to implement with current technology even when the number of the participants becomes large.     

Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication and Authentication Protocol based on Extended GHZ-W State and Quantum One-time Pad

A deterministic secure quantum communication and authentication protocol based on extended GHZ-W state and quantum one-time pad is proposed. In the protocol, state |φ^?〉 is used as the carrier. One photon of |φ^?〉 state is sent to Alice, and Alice obtains a random key by measuring photons with bases determined by ID. The information of bases is secret to others except Alice and Bob. Extended GHZ-W states are used as decoy photons, the positions of which in information sequence are encoded with identity string ID of the legal user, and the eavesdropping detection rate reaches 81%. The eavesdropping detection based on extended GHZ-W state combines with authentication and the secret ID ensures the security of the protocol.     

Forcible-Measurement Attack on Quantum Secure Direct Communication Protocol with Cluster State

The security of the quantum secure direct communication （QSDC） protocol with cluster state is analysed. It is shown that the secret would be partially leaked out when an eavesdropper performs forcible measurements on the transmitted particles. With the help of the result in minimum error discrimination, an upper bound （i.e. 40%） of this leakage is obtained. Moreover, the particular measurements which makes the leakage reach this bound are given.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication Based on Authentication

We propose two schemes of quantum secure direct communication （QADC） combined ideas of user authentication [Phys. Rev. A 73 （2006） 042305] and direct communication with dense coding [Phys. Rev. A. 68 （2003） 042317]. In these protocols, the privacy of authentication keys and the properties of the EPR pairs not only ensure the realization of identity authentication but also further improve the security of communication, and no secret messages are leaked even if the messages were broken.     

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.     

Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication Protocol Based on Huffman Compression Coding

In order to improve the efficiency of quantum secure direct communication, a controlled quantum secure direct communication protocol based on Huffman compression coding is proposed in this paper. The protocol combines classical Huffman coding with quantum communication, Alice performs Huffman compression code and unitary operation on the secret messages and sends them to Bob, and then Bob obtains the corresponding secret messages through decoding operation. In this protocol, communication efficiency can be effectively improved by using Huffman compression coding and sequence generator. As a result, the longer the secret messages, the higher the communication efficiency.     

Cryptanalysis and Improvement of the Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication by Using Four Particle Cluster States

In a recent study (Yang et al. in Int. J. Theor. Phys. 50:395–400, 2011), Yang et al. pointed out that the controller’s role in the quantum secure direct communication protocol (Zhang et al. in Int. J. Theor. Phys. 48:2971–2976, 2009) could be excluded unknowingly, the receiver can directly obtain the sender’s message without the permission of the controller, and then they presented an improved protocol. However, in this paper, we show that the dishonest controller in the improved protocol can steal the sender’s secret message without being detected. Meanwhile, we show that the controller’s role still can be excluded unknowingly in the improved protocol. An improvement is proposed to avoid these two flaws.     

基于五粒子团簇态的可控量子安全直接通信

提出了一个利用五粒子团簇态实现的可控量子安全直接通信方案.在这一方案中,首先信息发送者Alice、信息接收者Bob和控制者Charlie共享由Alice制备的一有序序列团簇态作为量子信道;在确定量子信道的安全性以后,Alice制备编码量子态(Bell态)序列,然后通过对自己手中的粒子进行Bell基测量,接着Charlie对自己手中的粒子进行单粒子的测量,就能把信息传送给接收者Bob;最后,Bob测量自己手中的粒子,并通过分析三人的测量结果,从而获得Alice要传送的信息.在我们提出的方案中,携带信息的粒子不需要在公共信道上传输.该文中,我们给出了方案的安全性分析,证明了我们的方案是决定性的和安全的.在未来,我们的方案在以目前的实验技术为基础条件下很可能得到实现.     

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.     

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.     

Secure Quantum Dialogue Protocol Based On Four-Qubit Cluster State

In this paper, a quantum dialogue protocol is proposed based on four-qubit Cluster state, which constructed a new quantum channel. By using Bell measurements and the corresponding unitary operation, two users can exchange their messages simultaneously and directly. And two security cheques are adopted to ensure its transmission security against the several well-known attacks from an outside eavesdropper. The protocol can avoid the information leakage, and it is simple and feasible with current technique.     

Efficient Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Authentication

Two protocols of quantum direct communication with authentication [Phys. Rev. A 73 （2006） 042305] were recently indicated to be insecure against the authenticator Trent attacks [Phys. Rev. A 75 （2007） 026301]. We present two efficient protocols by using four Panli operations, which are secure against inner Trent attacks as well as outer Eve attacks. Finally, we generalize them to multiparty quantum direction communication.     

Quantum Private Comparison of Equality Based on Five-Particle Cluster State

A protocol for quantum private comparison of equality(QPCE) is proposed based on five-particle cluster state with the help of a semi-honest third party(TP). In our protocol, TP is allowed to misbehave on its own but can not conspire with either of two parties. Compared with most two-user QPCE protocols, our protocol not only can compare two groups of private information(each group has two users) in one execution, but also compare just two private information. Compared with the multi-user QPCE protocol proposed, our protocol is safer with more reasonable assumptions of TP. The qubit efficiency is computed and analyzed. Our protocol can also be generalized to the case of 2N participants with one TP. The 2N-participant protocol can compare two groups(each group has N private information)in one execution or just N private information.     

Single-Photon Based Three-Party Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Identity Authentication

Multipartite quantum secure direct communication (MQSDC) enables multiple message senders to simultaneously and independently transmit secret messages to a message receiver through quantum channels without sharing keys. Existing MQSDC protocols all assume that all the communication parties are legal, which is difficult to guarantee in practical applications. In this study, a single-photon based three-party QSDC protocol with identity authentication is proposed. In the protocol, the message receiver first authenticates the identity of two practical message senders. Only when the identity authentication is passed, the legal message senders can encode their messages by the hyper-encoding technology. In theory, two bits of messages can be transmitted to the message receiver in a communication round. The protocol can resist the external attack and internal attack, and guarantee the security of the transmitted messages and the identity codes of each legal message sender. The secret message capacity of the protocol is simulated with two-decoy-state method. The maximal communication distance between any two communication parties can reach $\approx$31.75 km with weak signal and decoy state pulses. The three-party QSDC protocol can be extended to a general MQSDC protocol and has important application in the further practical MQSDC field.     

Quantum Private Comparison of Equality Based on Five-Particle Cluster State

A protocol for quantum private comparison of equality (QPCE) is proposed based on five-particle cluster state with the help of a semi-honest third party (TP). In our protocol, TP is allowed to misbehave on its own but can not conspire with either of two parties. Compared with most two-user QPCE protocols, our protocol not only can compare two groups of private information (each group has two users) in one execution, but also compare just two private information. Compared with the multi-user QPCE protocol proposed, our protocol is safer with more reasonable assumptions of TP. The qubit efficiency is computed and analyzed. Our protocol can also be generalized to the case of 2N participants with one TP. The 2N-participant protocol can compare two groups (each group has N private information) in one execution or just N private information.     

Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication by?Using Four Particle Cluster States

We present a controlled quantum secure direct communication protocol by using cluster states via swapping quantum entanglement and local unitary operation. In the present scheme, the sender transmit the secret message to the receiver directly and the secret message can only be recovered by the receiver under the permission of the controller.