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Revisiting the security of secure direct communication based on ping-pong protocol[Quantum Inf. Process. 8, 347 (2009)]

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A. Chamoli and C.M. Bhandari presented a secure direct communication based on ping-pong protocol[Quantum Inf. Process. 8, 347 (2009)]. M.Naseri analyzed its security and pointed out that in this protocol any dishonest party can obtain all the other one’s secret message with zero risk of being detected by using fake entangled particles (FEP attack) [M. Naseri, Quantum Inf. Process. online]. In this letter, we reexamine the protocol’s security and discover that except the FEP attack, using a special property of GHZ states, any one dishonest party can also take a special attack, i.e., double-CNOT(Controlled NOT) attack. Finally, a denial-of-service attack is also discussed.

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, 100124, Beijing, China

    Yu-Guang Yang, Yi-Wei Teng & Hai-Ping Chai

  2. State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 100876, Beijing, China

    Qiao-Yan Wen

  3. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Network, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

  4. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

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Yang, YG., Teng, YW., Chai, HP. et al. Revisiting the security of secure direct communication based on ping-pong protocol[Quantum Inf. Process. 8, 347 (2009)]. Quantum Inf Process 10, 317–323 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-010-0199-5

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