Physica Scripta

Secure networking quantum key distribution schemes with Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger states

Ying Guo, Ronghua Shi, Guihua Zeng

Published Mar 22, 2010• 15 citations

Abstract

A novel approach to quantum cryptography to be called NQKD, networking quantum key distribution, has been developed for secure quantum communication schemes on the basis of the complementary relations of entanglement Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) triplet states. One scheme distributes the private key among legal participants in a probabilistic manner, while another transmits the deterministic message with some certainty. Some decoy photons are employed for preventing a potential eavesdropper from attacking quantum channels. The present schemes are efficient as there exists an elegant method for key distributions. The security of the proposed schemes is exactly guaranteed by the entanglement of the GHZ quantum system, which is illustrated in security analysis.

DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/81/04/045006

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