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Chinese Physics Letters

Information Leakage Problem in High-Capacity Quantum Secure Communication with Authentication Using Einstein—Podolsky—Rosen Pairs

Zhihao Liu, Hanwu Chen, Wenjie Liu

Published Jul 1, 2016• 11 citations
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Abstract

The information leakage problem often exists in bidirectional quantum secure direct communication or quantum dialogue. In this work, we find that this problem also exists in the one-way quantum secure communication protocol [Chin. Phys. Lett. 32 (2015) 050301]. Specifically the first bit of every four-bit message block is leaked out without awareness. A way to improve the information leakage problem is given.

DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/33/7/070305

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