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Quantum Key Agreement (QKA) signifies that two or more participants together generate a key and QKA has to satisfy the following conditions: 1 Every participant can change the key and the key is not decided by any participant individually.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Guo-Jyun Zeng , Kuan-Hung Chen , Zhe-Hua Chang , Yu-Shan Yang , Yao-Hsin Chou

As an essential ingredient of quantum networks, quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) provides unconditional secret keys among multiple parties, which enables only legitimate users to decrypt the encrypted message. Recently, some QCKA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Zhao Li , Xiao-Yu Cao , Chen-Long Li , Chen-Xun Weng , Jie Gu , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Two orthogonal-state-based protocols of quantum key agreement (QKA) are proposed. The first protocol of QKA proposed here is designed for two-party QKA, whereas the second protocol is designed for multi-party QKA. Security of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Chitra Shukla , Nasir Alam , Anirban Pathak

A new cryptographic tool, anonymous quantum key technique, is introduced that leads to unconditionally secure key distribution and encryption schemes that can be readily implemented experimentally in a realistic environment. If quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen

We present two schemes for multiparty quantum remote secret conference in which each legitimate conferee can read out securely the secret message announced by another one, but a vicious eavesdropper can get nothing about it. The first one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Xi-Han Li , Chun-Yan Li , Fu-Guo Deng , Ping Zhou , Yu-Jie Liang , Hong-Yu Zhou

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution (TF-QKD) enables two distant parties to establish a shared secret key, by interfering weak coherent pulses (WCPs) in an intermediate measuring station. This allows TF-QKD to reach greater distances than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Giacomo Carrara , Gláucia Murta , Federico Grasselli

Anonymous communication networks (ACNs) enable Internet browsing in a way that prevents the accessed content from being traced back to the user. This allows a high level of privacy, protecting individuals from being tracked by advertisers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Stephen DiAdamo , Miralem Mehic , Charles Fleming

Quantum conference key agreement enables secure communication among multiple parties by leveraging multipartite entanglement, which is expected to play a crucial role in future quantum networks. However, its practical implementation has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yu-Shuo Lu , Hua-Lei Yin , Yuan-Mei Xie , Yao Fu , Zeng-Bing Chen

The fairness of a secure multi-party quantum key agreement (MQKA) protocol requires that all involved parties are entirely peer entities and can equally influence the outcome of the protocol to establish a shared key wherein no one can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Zhiwei Sun , Xiaoqiang Sun , Ping Wang

Device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) enables two remote parties to share an information-theoretically secure key without any assumptions on the inner workings of the devices used. Device-independent conference key agreement…

The laws of quantum mechanics allow for the distribution of a secret random key between two parties. Here we analyse the security of a protocol for establishing a common secret key between N parties (i.e. a conference key), using resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 Michael Epping , Hermann Kampermann , Chiara Macchiavello , Dagmar Bruß

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) and quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) provide efficient encryption approaches for realizing multi-party secure communication, which are essential components of future quantum networks. We present three…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-14 Shuaishuai Liu , Zhengguo Lu , Pu Wang , Yan Tian , Qing Lu , Xuyang Wang , Yongmin Li

We propose a semi-quantum conference key agreement (SQCKA) protocol that leverages on GHZ states. We provide a comprehensive security analysis for our protocol that does not rely on a trusted mediator party. We present information-theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Rúben Barreiro , Walter O. Krawec , Paulo Mateus , Nikola Paunković , André Souto

One of the applications of quantum technology is to use quantum states and measurements to communicate which offers more reliable security promises. Quantum data hiding, which gives the source party the ability of sharing data among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Xingyao Wu , Jianxin Chen

Quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) enables the unconditional secure distribution of conference keys among multiple participants. Due to challenges in high-fidelity preparation and long-distance distribution of multi-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Yu Bao , Yi-Ran Xiao , Yu-Chen Song , Yao Fu , Xiao-Yu Cao , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Quantum Key Exchange (QKE, also known as Quantum Key Distribution or QKD) allows communicating parties to securely establish cryptographic keys. It is a well-established fact that all QKE protocols require that the parties have access to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 Kenneth G. Paterson , Fred Piper , Ruediger Schack

Quantum entanglement plays a pivotal role in many communication protocols, like secret sharing and quantum cryptography. We consider a scenario where more than two parties are involved in a protocol and share a multipartite entangled state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Arpan Das , Sumit Nandi , Sk Sazim , Pankaj Agrawal

Entanglement plays a crucial role in the security of quantum key distribution. A secret key can only be obtained by two parties if there exists a corresponding entanglement-based description of the protocol in which entanglement is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Giacomo Carrara , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß , Gláucia Murta

Quantum key agreement requires all participants to recover the shared key together, so it is crucial to resist the participant attack. In this paper, we propose a verifiable multi-party quantum key agreement protocol based on the six-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Li-Juan Liu , Zhi-Hui Li

Anonymous voting is a voting method of hiding the link between a vote and a voter, the context of which ranges from governmental elections to decision making in small groups like councils or companies. In this paper, we propose a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Qingle Wang , Chaohua Yu , Fei Gao , Haoyu Qi , Qiaoyan Wen