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Quantum oblivious transfer with relaxed constraints on the receiver

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All existing quantum oblivious transfer protocols can be achieved when all the members have to be quantum. So what will happen if not all the members are quantum? In this paper, we propose two novel protocols for all-or-nothing oblivious transfer and one-out-of-two oblivious transfer respectively by using single qubit states. Our contribution lies in the fact that the message receiver Bob can use fewer quantum resources so that our protocols relax the requirements of protocol implementation in practice. We analyze the security of the protocols and prove that they are secure against Bob who even has the quantum attack capability.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This work is supported by the Importation and Development of High-Caliber Talents Project of Beijing Municipal Institutions (No. CIT&TCD201304039); National Cipher Development Fund during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period (No. MMJJ201401006); The Scientific Research Common Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (No. KM201510005016); and The Basic Research Foundation of Beijing University of Technology (No. X4007999201501).

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    Yu-Guang Yang, Rui Yang, He Lei, Wei-Min Shi & Yi-Hua Zhou

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

  3. Beijing Key Laboratory of Trusted Computing, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

  4. National Engineering Laboratory for Critical Technologies of Information Security Classified Protection, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

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Yang, YG., Yang, R., Lei, H. et al. Quantum oblivious transfer with relaxed constraints on the receiver. Quantum Inf Process 14, 3031–3040 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-1013-1

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