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Quantum Information Processing

Statistics attack on ‘quantum private comparison with a malicious third party’ and its improvement

Jun Gu, Chih-Yung Ho, Tzonelih Hwang

Published Dec 18, 2017• 7 citations
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10.1007/s11128-017-1788-3

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