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Quantum secret sharing between multi-party and multi-party without entanglement

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

We propose a quantum secret sharing protocol between multi-party (mm members in group 1) and multi-party (nn members in group 2) using a sequence of single photons. These single photons are used directly to encode classical information in a quantum secret sharing process. In this protocol, all members in group 1 directly encode their respective keys on the states of single photons via unitary operations, then the last one (the mthm^{th} member of group 1) sends 1/n1/n of the resulting qubits to each of group 2. Thus the secret message shared by all members of group 1 is shared by all members of group 2 in such a way that no subset of each group is efficient to read the secret message, but the entire set (not only group 1 but also group 2) is. We also show that it is unconditionally secure. This protocol is feasible with present-day techniques.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0502045,
  title  = {Quantum secret sharing between multi-party and multi-party without entanglement},
  author = {Feng-Li Yan and Ting Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0502045},
  year   = {2007}
}

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