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Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is the multipartite cryptographic primitive. Most of existing QSS protocols are limited by the linear rate-distance bound, and cannot realize the long-distance and high-capacity multipartite key distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Meng-Dong Zhu , Cheng Zhang , Shi-Pu Gu , Xing-Fu Wang , Ming-Ming Du , Wei Zhong , Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng

This paper studies the capacity limits for quantum secret sharing (QSS). The goal of a QSS scheme is to distribute a quantum secret among multiple participants, such that only authorized parties can recover it through collaboration, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Gabrielle Lalou , Husein Natur , Uzi Pereg

Quantum communication protocols can be designed to detect eavesdropping attacks, something that classical technologies are unable to do since classical information can be replicated in a non-destructive manner. Eavesdropping detection is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Santanu Majhi , Debajyoti Bera

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) plays a pivotal role in multiparty quantum communication, ensuring the secure distribution of private information among multiple parties. However, the security of QSS schemes can be compromised by attacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Tianqi Liu , Jiancheng Lai , Zhenhua Li , Tao Li

Security of the three-party quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes based on entanglement and a collective eavesdropping check is analyzed in the case of considerable quantum channel losses. An opaque attack scheme is presented for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fu-Guo Deng , Xi-Han Li , Hong-Yu Zhou

We propose a quantum secret sharing protocol between multi-party ($m$ members in group 1) and multi-party ($n$ members in group 2) using a sequence of single photons. These single photons are used directly to encode classical information in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng-Li Yan , Ting Gao

In quantum cryptography, quantum secret sharing $(QSS)$ is a fundamental primitive. $QSS$ can be used to create complex and secure multiparty quantum protocols. Existing $QSS$ protocols are either at the $(n, n)$ threshold $2$ level or at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Kartick Sutradhar , Hari Om

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) allows a dealer to distribute a secret quantum state among a set of parties so that certain subsets can reconstruct the secret, while unauthorized subsets obtain no information. While QSS was introduced over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Alper Çakan , Vipul Goyal , Chen-Da Liu-Zhang , João Ribeiro

In this paper we analyze the (im)possibility of the exact distinguishability of orthogonal multipartite entangled states under {\em restricted local operation and classical communication}. Based on this local distinguishability analysis we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ramij Rahaman , Matthew G. Parker

Optical layer attacks on communication networks are one of the weakest reinforced areas of the network, allowing attackers to overcome security when proper safeguards are not put into place. Here, we present our solution or Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Adrian Chan , Mostafa Khalil , Kh Arif Shahriar , David V. Plant , Lawrence R. Chen , Randy Kuang

We propose a protocol for multipartite secret sharing of quantum information through an \textit{amplitude damping} quantum channel. This network is, for example, of two organizations communicating with their own employees connected via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Siddhant Singh , Shivang Srivastava , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is an important branch of secure multiparty quantum computation. Several schemes for $(n, n)$ threshold QSS based on quantum Fourier transformation (QFT) have been proposed. Inspired by the flexibility of $(t,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Sarbani Roy , Sourav Mukhopadhyay

Quantum secret-sharing protocols involving N partners (NQSS) are key distribution protocols in which Alice encodes her key into $N-1$ qubits, in such a way that all the other partners must cooperate in order to retrieve the key. On these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Scarani , Nicolas Gisin

This study proposes a multiparty mediated quantum secret sharing (MQSS) protocol that allows n restricted quantum users to share a secret via the assistance of a dishonest third-party (TP) with full quantum capabilities. Under the premise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Chia-Wei Tsai , Chun-Wei Yang , Jason Lin

Quantum secret sharing schemes are a family of quantum cryptographic protocols which provide secure quantum encodings, mapping one secret to multiple shares of information such that the original secret cannot be accessed without an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Varin Sikand , Andrew Nemec

Based on a quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol [Phys. Rev. A69(04)052319], we propose a $(n,n)$-threshold scheme of multiparty quantum secret sharing of classical messages (QSSCM) using only single photons. We take advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-19 Zhan-jun Zhang , Yong Li , Zhong-xiao Man

Recently, Li et al. [Phys. Rev. A, 82(2), 022303] presented two semi-quantum secret sharing (SQSS) protocols using GHZ-like states. The proposed schemes are rather practical because only the secret dealer requires to equip with advanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Jason Lin , Chun-Wei Yang , Chia-Wei Tsai , Tzonelih Hwang

In this paper we study the protocol implementation and property analysis for several practical quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes with continuous variable graph state (CVGS). For each QSS scheme, an implementation protocol is designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-17 Yadong Wu , Runze Cai , Guangqiang He , Jun Zhang

Quantum secret sharing is an encryption technique based on quantum mechanics, which utilizes uncertainty principle to achieve security in transmission. Most protocols focus on the study of quantum ($n,n$) or ($t,n$) threshold single secret…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Rui-Hai Ma , Hui-Nan Chen , Bin-Bin Cai , Song Lin , Xiao-Chen Zhang

Secret sharing allows a trusted party (the dealer) to distribute a secret to a group of players, who can only access the secret cooperatively. Quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocols could provide unconditional security based on fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Warren P. Grice , Bing Qi