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This paper proposes a multi-party semi-quantum secret sharing (MSQSS) protocol which allows a quantum party (manager) to share a secret among several classical parties (agents) based on GHZ-like states. By utilizing the special properties of GHZ-like states, the proposed scheme can easily detect outside eavesdropping attacks and has the highest qubit efficiency among the existing MSQSS protocols. Then, we illustrate an efficient way to convert the proposed MSQSS protocol into a multi-party semi-quantum key distribution (MSQKD) protocol. The proposed approach is even useful to convert all the existing measure–resend type of semi-quantum secret sharing protocols into semi-quantum key distribution protocols.
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We would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan, for partially supporting this research in finance under the Contract No. MOST 105-2221-E-006 -162 -MY2 .
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Yu, KF., Gu, J., Hwang, T. et al. Multi-party semi-quantum key distribution-convertible multi-party semi-quantum secret sharing. Quantum Inf Process 16, 194 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-017-1631-x
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