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Improvements on “multiparty quantum key agreement with single particles”

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Recently, Liu et al. (Quantum Inf Process 12: 1797–1805, 2013) proposed a secure multiparty quantum key agreement (MQKA) protocol with single particles. Their protocol allows N parties to negotiate a secret session key in such away that (1) outside eavesdroppers cannot gain the session key without introducing any errors; (2) the session key cannot be determined by any non-trivial subset of the participants. However, the particle efficiency of their protocol is only \(\frac{1}{(k+1)N(N-1)}\). In this paper, we show that the efficiency of the MQKA protocol can be improved to \(\frac{1}{N(k+1)}\) by introducing two additional unitary operations. Since, in some scenarios, the secret keys are confidential, neither party is willing to divulge any of the contents to the other. Therefore, in our protocol, no participant can learn anything more than its prescribed output, i.e., the secret keys of the participants can be kept secret during the protocol instead of being exposed to others, thus, the privacy of the protocol is also improved. Furthermore, we explicitly show the scheme is secure.

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The authors would like to thank anonymous referees for very useful comments. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61272013) and the Key Project of NSFC-Guangdong Funds (No. U0935002). The work of Qin Li is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61202398) and Hunan Provincial Education Department (Grant No. 12C0400 ).

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    Zhiwei Sun, Cai Zhang & Dongyang Long

  2. Faculty of Computer, Guangdong University of technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Banghai Wang

  3. College of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, People’s Republic of China

    Qin Li

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Sun, Z., Zhang, C., Wang, B. et al. Improvements on “multiparty quantum key agreement with single particles”. Quantum Inf Process 12, 3411–3420 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-013-0608-7

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