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Cryptanalysis and improvement of efficient quantum dialogue using entangled states and entanglement swapping without information leakage

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The novel quantum dialogue (QD) protocol by using the three-dimensional Bell states and entanglement swapping (Wang et al. in Quantum Inf Process 15(6):2593–2603, 2016) is analyzed. It is shown that there is the information leakage problem in this QD protocol. To be specific, one quarter information of the secret messages exchanged is leaked out unconsciously. Afterward, it is improved to a truly secure one without information leakage. Besides, the security of the improved QD protocol is analyzed in detail. It is shown that the improved QD protocol has some obvious features compared with the original one.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61502101, 61170321), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant Nos. BK20140651, BK20140823), and funded by China Scholarship Council, PAPD and CICAEET.

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  2. Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Zhi-Hao Liu & Han-Wu Chen

  3. Centre for Quantum Software and Information, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Zhi-Hao Liu

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Liu, ZH., Chen, HW. Cryptanalysis and improvement of efficient quantum dialogue using entangled states and entanglement swapping without information leakage. Quantum Inf Process 16, 229 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-017-1668-x

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