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Shi et al. (Quantum Inf Process 14(6):2183–2193, 2015) proposed a novel quantum deniable authentication protocol in which new shared secret keys can be updated timely with the help of a trusted party, and the fact that only the specified receiver could identify the true source of a given message is guaranteed by the new shared secret keys generated in the key update phase. Hence, the core of Shi et al.’s protocol is the key update phase . However, the analysis in this paper shows that there is a bug in the key update phase, which can lead to the failure of updating the shared key. Furthermore, an improved simple method is proposed to mitigate the security weakness.

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This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61373171, 61702007), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0802400), the 111 Project under (Grant No. B08038), and the Key Project of Science Research of Anhui Province (Grant No. KJ2017A519).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Hao Cao & Wenping Ma

  2. School of Information and Network Engineering, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou, 233100, China

    Hao Cao

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Cao, H., Ma, W. Comment on “A novel quantum deniable authentication protocol without entanglement”. Quantum Inf Process 17, 289 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-2062-z

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