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Qubit-wise teleportation and its application in public-key secret communication

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We propose a quantum public-key encryption (QPKE) protocol for an unknown multi-qubit state based on qubit-wise teleportation. The private-key is a computational Boolean function, whereas the public-key is a pair of a random bit string and a quantum state. A private-key corresponds to an exponential number of public-keys. Security analysis showed that the proposed protocol has information-theoretic security from attacks for the private-key and the encryption. A multi-partite quantum secret state sharing protocol is presented based on the proposed multi-qubit-oriented QPKE protocol. Such secret state sharing protocol is information-theoretically secure.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61173157, 61672517).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Chenmiao Wu & Li Yang

  2. Data Assurance and Communication Security Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Chenmiao Wu & Li Yang

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Chenmiao Wu

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11432-016-0893-y.

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Wu, C., Yang, L. Qubit-wise teleportation and its application in public-key secret communication. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 032501 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-016-0152-4

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