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Cryptanalysis of dynamic quantum secret sharing

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We analyze the security of a dynamic quantum secret sharing scheme. The analysis shows that the first agent and the last one can gain access to the dealer’s master key without the others’ cooperation by a special participant attack in this scheme.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61152002, 61202317), the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Grant No. 01-04-2), the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (Grant No. 112300410192), the Young Key Teacher Foundation of Henan Province’s Universities (Grant No. 2012GGJS-157), the Natural Science Foundation of Education Bureau of Henan Province (Grant No. 2011A120006), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. GK20-1002041).

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  1. College of Mathematical Science, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang, 471022, Henan, China

    Tian-Yin Wang

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

    Tian-Yin Wang

  3. Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, Jilin, China

    Tian-Yin Wang

  4. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi, 710062, Xi’an, China

    Yan-Ping Li

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Wang, TY., Li, YP. Cryptanalysis of dynamic quantum secret sharing. Quantum Inf Process 12, 1991–1997 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-012-0508-2

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