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Modern Physics Letters B

Insecurity of Jiang et al.’s quantum cryptography protocol

Gan Gao, Yue Wang, Xueying Cui, Zhen-Gen Zhou

Published Jun 16, 2020• 1 citation
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Abstract

Recently, Jiang et al. proposed a quantum cryptography protocol [Mod. Phys. Lett. B 32 (2018) 1850125] which can implement the equal exchange of secret information between the two parties with the help of semi-trusted third party. Here, it will be shown that the protocol is insecure and has the drawback of information leakage.
DOI
10.1142/s0217984920503054

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