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A novel quantum solution to secure two-party distance computation

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Secure Two-Party Distance Computation is an important primitive of Secure Multiparty Computational Geometry that it involves two parties, where each party has a private point, and the two parties want to jointly compute the distance between their points without revealing anything about their respective private information. Secure Two-Party Distance Computation has very important and potential applications in settings of high secure requirements, such as privacy-preserving Determination of Spatial Location-Relation, Determination of Polygons Similarity, and so on. In this paper, we present a quantum protocol for Secure Two-Party Distance Computation by using QKD-based Quantum Private Query. The security of the protocol is based on the physical principles of quantum mechanics, instead of difficulty assumptions, and therefore, it can ensure higher security than the classical related protocols.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61772001).

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    Zhen-wan Peng, Run-hua Shi, Pan-hong Wang & Shun Zhang

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Peng, Zw., Shi, Rh., Wang, Ph. et al. A novel quantum solution to secure two-party distance computation. Quantum Inf Process 17, 145 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-1911-0

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