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Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics

Quantum Secret Sharing of Key in Networks

Yang Zhang, Wei Qiu Chen, Hongwei Li, Shuang Wang, Zheng‐Fu Han, Zhen−Qiang Yin, Guang‐Can Guo

Published May 1, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

Quantum secret sharing is a important problem in the quantum cryptography. We analyzed two kinds of practical quantum secret sharing protocols without entanglement. And their combination could be a basic unit in the quantum secret sharing network, which is potential in practical applications.
DOI
10.1109/sopo.2011.5780519

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