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Cryptanalysis and improvement of the quantum private comparison protocol with semi-honest third party

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Recently, a quantum private comparison (QPC) protocol with a dishonest third party (TP) (Yang et al. in Quantum Inf Process, 2012. doi:10.1007/s11128-012-0433-4) was proposed, which pointed out that the assumption of semi-honest third party (TP) is unreasonable. Here we find this protocol is not so secure as it was expected, and then we give some improvement strategies, which ensure that both players’ secrets will not be leaked to anyone. We also discuss the assumption for TP in QPC protocls, which gives a constructive suggestions for the design of a new QPC protocol.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61170270, 61100203, 60903152, 61003286, 61121061), NCET (Grant No. NCET-10-0260), SRFDP (Grant No. 20090005110010), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 4112040, 4122054), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. BUPT2011YB01, BUPT2011RC0505, 2011PTB-00-29, 2011RCZJ15, 2012RC0612).

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Zhang, WW., Zhang, KJ. Cryptanalysis and improvement of the quantum private comparison protocol with semi-honest third party. Quantum Inf Process 12, 1981–1990 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-012-0507-3

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