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Security improvements for privacy-preserving quantum multiparty computation based on circular structure

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Deng et al. (J Inf Secur Appl 47:120–124, 2019) recently proposed a quantum multiparty collaborative computation protocol that claims that the private information of trustful participants is secure against the distrustful ones. They also analyzed the security of their model against a malicious user and claimed that it is secure. However, our work shows that Deng et al.’s protocol is insecure against both inside and outside attacks. We suggest a modification to prevent both inside and outside attacks from getting any useful information. Also, the proposed modified version allows all participated users to compute the final statistics instead of just one user.

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This research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and NXM Labs Inc. NXM’s autonomous security technology enables devices, including connected vehicles, to communicate securely with each other and their surroundings without human intervention while leveraging data at the edge to provide business intelligence and insights. NXM ensures data privacy and integrity by using a novel blockchain-based architecture which enables rapid and regulatory-compliant data monetization. Ryerson University is in the “Dish With One Spoon Territory.” The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers, have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect. Wilfrid Laurier University is located on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenosaunee peoples. We thank them for allowing us to conduct research on their land.

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  1. Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

    Hussein Abulkasim & Atefeh Mashatan

  2. Faculty of Science, New Valley University, El-Kharga, Egypt

    Hussein Abulkasim

  3. Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

    Shohini Ghose

  4. Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    Shohini Ghose

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Abulkasim, H., Mashatan, A. & Ghose, S. Security improvements for privacy-preserving quantum multiparty computation based on circular structure. Quantum Inf Process 21, 25 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03357-w

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