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Quantum authencryption: one-step authenticated quantum secure direct communications for off-line communicants

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This work proposes a new direction in quantum cryptography called quantum authencryption. Quantum authencryption (QA), a new term to distinguish from authenticated quantum secure direct communications, is used to describe the technique of combining quantum encryption and quantum authentication into one process for off-line communicants. QA provides a new way of quantum communications without the presence of a receiver on line, and thus makes many applications depending on secure one-way quantum communications, such as quantum E-mail systems, possible. An example protocol using single photons and one-way hash functions is presented to realize the requirements on QA.

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This research is supported partially by the National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC, under the Contract No. NSC 100-2221-E-006-152-MY3.

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Hwang, T., Luo, YP., Yang, CW. et al. Quantum authencryption: one-step authenticated quantum secure direct communications for off-line communicants. Quantum Inf Process 13, 925–933 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-013-0702-x

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