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Quantum secret sharing (QSS) allows a trusted party to distribute the secret keys to a group of participates, who can only access the secret cooperatively. The semi-quantum secret sharing (SQSS) takes fewer quantum resources and has higher efficiency than the QSS protocol. However, in the existing SQSS protocols, the shared secrets are generated according to the random operations of Bob and Charlie, which are inefficient and uncertain. An efficient semi-quantum secret sharing protocol based on Bell states was proposed, where Alice can share the specific secrets with Bob and Charlie, by encoding her secrets on the two different Bell states. Then, the security analysis shows that this scheme is secure against intercept–resend attack, entangle–measure attack and Trojan horse attack. Compared with similar studies, the proposed scheme is more flexible and practical, and the qubit efficiency is increased by about \(100\%\).
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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2019XDA02, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 92046001 and 61962009, and the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication under Grant KLMCC2020KF006. We also would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed review and valuable comments, which have enhanced the quality of this paper.
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Tian, Y., Li, J., Chen, XB. et al. An efficient semi-quantum secret sharing protocol of specific bits. Quantum Inf Process 20, 217 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03157-2
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