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Guan et al. (Quantum Inf Process 13(11):2355–2374, 2014) proposed a three-party authenticated quantum key distribution protocol which allows two participants to authenticate each other and eventually share a session key between them with the help of a trusted center (TC), who has pre-shared a master key with each participant, respectively. After a successful authentication and key distribution process, TC and the participants update their master keys, respectively. However, this study points out that Guan et al.’s scheme suffers from the intercept-and-measure attack and information leakage problem, and has the synchronization problem.

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We would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of China for financial support of this research under Contract No. MOST 105-2221-E-006-162-MY2.

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  1. Institute for Information Industry, CyberTrust Technology Institute, No. 116, Fu-Yang St., Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC

    Yi-Ping Luo

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Rd., Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan, ROC

    Wen-Han Chou & Tzonelih Hwang

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Luo, YP., Chou, WH. & Hwang, T. Comment on “A practical protocol for three-party authenticated quantum key distribution”. Quantum Inf Process 16, 119 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-017-1566-2

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