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Trojan Horse Attack Strategy on Quantum Private Communication

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Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNSC,volume 3903))

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Fragility of quantum private communication based on Einstein-Podosky-Rosen (EPR) pair as pre-shared key against trojan horse attack strategy is investigated in detail. To prevent this kind of attack strategy, the EPR pairs employed in the quantum private communication is transferred into non-orthogonal entangled states by employing unitary transformations which are actually rotation operations on the quantum signal. Analysis show that the improved scheme is robust against the trojan horse attack strategy without reducing the security against other kinds of attack strategies.

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  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an, 710069, China

    Jinye Peng

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Guangqiang He, Jin Xiong & Guihua Zeng

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Kefei Chen  & Xuejia Lai  & 

  2. Singapore Management University (SMU), 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore

    Robert Deng

  3. Cryptography and Security Department Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

    Jianying Zhou

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Peng, J., He, G., Xiong, J., Zeng, G. (2006). Trojan Horse Attack Strategy on Quantum Private Communication. In: Chen, K., Deng, R., Lai, X., Zhou, J. (eds) Information Security Practice and Experience. ISPEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11689522_17

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