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Expansible quantum secret sharing network

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In the practical applications, member expansion is a usual demand during the development of a secret sharing network. However, there are few consideration and discussion on network expansibility in the existing quantum secret sharing schemes. We propose an expansible quantum secret sharing scheme with relatively simple and economical quantum resources and show how to split and reconstruct the quantum secret among an expansible user group in our scheme. Its trait, no requirement of any agent’s assistant during the process of member expansion, can help to prevent potential menaces of insider cheating. We also give a discussion on the security of this scheme from three aspects.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61103210, 61272514, 61202451, 61003287, 61170272), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20100005120002), the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (No. 131067) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. YZDJ1103, YZDJ1102, BUPT2012RC0221).

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  1. Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, 100070 , China

    Ying Sun & Sheng-Wei Xu

  2. Information Security Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Xiu-Bo Chen, Xin-Xin Niu & Yi-Xian Yang

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Sun, Y., Xu, SW., Chen, XB. et al. Expansible quantum secret sharing network. Quantum Inf Process 12, 2877–2888 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-013-0570-4

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