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Efficient Two-Party Quantum Secret Key-Sharing Protocol

Kondwani Makanda, Jun‐Cheol Jeon

Published Aug 22, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

Quantum secret sharing (QSS), quantum secure direct communication, and quantum teleportation, which are all included under quantum key distribution, are used to share or distribute a secure key in a quantum environment. We emphasize cooperation between communicating parties to eliminate un-trustworthy members and to improve the strength of the key.

DOI
10.14257/astl.2015.109.03

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Quantum secret sharing (QSS), quantum secure direct communication, and quantum teleportation, which are all included under quantum key distribution, are used to share or distribute a secure key in a quantum environment. We emphasize cooperation between communicating parties to eliminate un-trustworthy members and to improve the strength of the key.
Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol techniques are used in the distribution of keys using the laws of physics.Quantum secret sharing (QSS), quantum secure direct communication, and quantum teleportation, which are all included under QKD, are used to share or distribute a secure key in a quantum environment.In QSS, we share a key based on the quantum properties of light.We emphasize cooperation between communicating parties to eliminate untrustworthy members and to improve the strength of the key.The results obtained showed that using the proposed method, it is difficult for eavesdroppers to obtain the key.
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Quantum secret sharing (QSS), as a quantum extension of classical secret sharing, uses the basic principles of quantum mechanics to share information safely among multiple parties, providing a new paradigm for information security. As a key foundation for secure multiparty quantum communication and distributed quantum computing, QSS has attracted considerable attention since its emergence. Currently, research in this field includes both classical and quantum scenarios, and continuous progress has been made in both theoretical and experimental aspects. This paper first reviews the current development of QSS for classical information. In this regard, significant and parallel progress has been made in both discrete-variable QSS and continuous-variable QSS. The QSS protocols for sharing classical information, from entangled states to single photons and then to coherent light, have been continuously optimized to better utilize available resources and achieve more efficient implementation under current technological conditions. Meanwhile, round-robin, measurement-device-independent, and other protocols have been steadily improving the security of QSS. Next, one will focus on QSS scheme for quantum secrets, which begins with the symmetry of access structures and introduces basic (k, n) threshold protocols, dynamic schemes that support adaptive agent groups, and symmetric quantum information splitting through entanglement. It further introduces hierarchical quantum secret sharing schemes for asymmetric splitting of quantum information. Considering practical laboratory conditions of quantum states as resources, an overall discussion is conducted on quantum secret sharing with graph states. Afterwards, the design of a continuous-variable scheme for quantum secret sharing is outlined, and entanglement state sharing and quantum teleportation between multiple senders and receivers are introduced. Finally, this review discusses and outlines the future development directions of QSS, thereby inspiring readers to further study and explore the relevant subjects.
We present and demonstrate a novel protocol for distributing secret keys between two and only two parties based on N-party single-qubit Quantum Secret Sharing (QSS). We demonstrate our new protocol with N = 3 parties using phase-encoded photons. We show that any two out of N parties can build a secret key based on partial information from each other and with collaboration from the remaining N - 2 parties. Our implementation allows for an accessible transition between N-party QSS and arbitrary two party QKD without modification of hardware. In addition, our approach significantly reduces the number of resources such as single photon detectors, lasers and dark fiber connections needed to implement QKD.
Quantum communication plays an important role in quantum information science due to its unconditional security. In practical implementations, the users of each communication vary with the transmitted information, and hence not all users are required to participate in each communication round. Therefore, improving the flexibility and efficiency of the actual communication process is highly demanded. Here, we propose a theoretical quantum communication scheme that realizes secret key distribution for both the two-party quantum key distribution (QKD) and multi-party quantum secret sharing (QSS) modes. The sender, Alice, can freely select one or more users to share keys among all users, and nonactive users will not participate in the process of secret key sharing. Numerical simulations show the superiority of the proposed scheme in transmission distance and secure key rate. Consequently, the proposed scheme is valuable for secure quantum communication network scenarios.