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Cryptanalysis and improvement of three-particle deterministic secure and high bit-rate direct quantum communication protocol

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The three-particle deterministic secure and high bit-rate direct quantum communication protocol and its improved version are analyzed. It shows that an eavesdropper can steal the sender’s secret message by the intercept-resend attack and the entanglement attack. The original version is even fragile under denial-of-service attack. As a result, some suggestions to revise them are given.

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This work is supported by China National Nature Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 61070240, 61170321 and 61103235), Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 20110092110024) and Open Research Fund from State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering (SKLSE) (Grant No. SKLSE2012-09-41).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Zhi-Hao Liu, Han-Wu Chen & Wen-Qian Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Zhi-Hao Liu, Han-Wu Chen & Wen-Qian Li

  3. Software College, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Dong Wang

  4. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Dong Wang

  5. Department of Information Technology, Nanjing Forest Police College, Nanjing, 210046, China

    Wen-Qian Li

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Liu, ZH., Chen, HW., Wang, D. et al. Cryptanalysis and improvement of three-particle deterministic secure and high bit-rate direct quantum communication protocol. Quantum Inf Process 13, 1345–1351 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-014-0732-z

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