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Chinese Physics Letters

A Special Eavesdropping on One-Sender VersusN-Receiver QSDC Protocol

Gao Fei, Song Lin, Wen Qiao-yan, Fu-Chen Zhu

Published May 1, 2008• 77 citations
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Abstract

We analyse the security of a quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol and find that an eavesdropper can utilize a special property of GHZ states to elicit all or part of the transmitted secrets without being detected. The particular attack strategy is presented in detail. We give an improved version of this protocol so that it can resist this attack.

DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/25/5/011

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We analyse the security of a quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol and find that an eavesdropper can utilize a special property of GHZ states to elicit all or part of the transmitted secrets without being detected. The particular attack strategy is presented in detail. We give an improved version of this protocol so that it can resist this attack.
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The quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol with a random basis and order is analysed and an effective attack, i.e. teleportation attack, is presented. An eavesdropper can obtain half of the transmitted secret bits with the help of this special attack. It is shown that quantum teleportation can be employed to weaken the role of the order-rearrangement encryption at least in a certain circumstance. Meanwhile, a possible improvement on this protocol is proposed, which makes it secure against this kind of attack.
Security of the quantum secure direct communication protocol (i.e., the C-S QSDC protocol) recently proposed by Cao and Song [Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 (2006) 290] is analyzed in the case of considerable quantum channel noise. The eavesdropping scheme is presented, which reveals that the C-S QSDC protocol is not secure if the quantum bit error rate (QBER) caused by quantum channel noise is higher than 4.17%. Our eavesdropping scheme induces about 4.17% QBER for those check qubits. However, such QBER can be hidden in the counterpart induced by the noisy quantum channel if the eavesdropper Eve replaces the original noisy channel by an ideal one. Furthermore, if the QBER induced by quantum channel noise is lower than 4.17%, then in the eavesdropping scheme Eve still can eavesdrop part of the secret messages by safely attacking a fraction of the transmitted qubits. Finally, an improvement on the C-S QSDC protocol is put forward.
The quantum secure direct communication protocol recently proposed by Cao and Song [Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 (2006) 290] (i.e., the C-S QSDC protocol) is revisited. A security leak is pointed out. Taking advantage of this leak, an eavesdropper may adopt the intercept–measure–resend strategy to attack the quantum channel such that in the C-S QSDC protocol the secret message can be completely eavesdropped. To fix the leak, the original version of the C-S QSDC protocol is revised. As a consequence, the security is improved and assured at least in the case of an ideal quantum channel.