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Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises secure key agreement by using quantum mechanical systems. We argue that QKD will be an important part of future cryptographic infrastructures. It can provide long-term confidentiality for encrypted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-25 Douglas Stebila , Michele Mosca , Norbert Lütkenhaus

We introduce a constructive method to calculate the achievable secret key rate for a generic class of quantum key distribution protocols, when only a finite number n of signals is given. Our approach is applicable to all scenarios in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Meyer , Hermann Kampermann , Matthias Kleinmann , Dagmar Bruss

With the advantages of both classical and quantum secret sharing, many practical hybrid quantum secret sharing have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a hybrid quantum secret sharing scheme based on mutually unbiased bases and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Dan-Li Zhi , Zhu-Hui Li , Li-juan Liu , Zhao-Wei Han

In recent years, quantum computing technologies have steadily matured and have begun to find practical applications across various domains. One important area is network communication security, where Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Abel C. H. Chen

We introduce a family of QKD protocols for distributing shared random keys within a network of $n$ users. The advantage of these protocols is that any possible key structure needed within the network, including broadcast keys shared among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Matej Pivoluska , Marcus Huber , Mehul Malik

Quantum key distribution allows for the generation of a secret key between distant parties connected by a quantum channel such as optical fibre or free space. Unfortunately, the rate of generation of a secret key by direct transmission is…

Quantum secret sharing is well known as a method for players to share a classical secret for secret sharing in quantum mechanical ways. Most of the results associated with quantum secret sharing are based on pure multipartite entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Minjin Choi , Yonghae Lee , Soojoon Lee

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a family of protocols for growing a private encryption key between two parties. Despite much progress, all ground-based QKD approaches have a distance limit due to atmospheric losses or in-fibre…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Robert Bedington , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Alexander Ling

Secret sharing is an instrumental tool for sharing secret keys in distributed systems. In a classical threshold setting, this involves a dealer who has a secret/key, a set of parties/users to which shares of the secret are sent, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Utkarsh Gupta , Hessam Mahdavifar

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is the most widely studied quantum cryptographic model that exploits quantum effects to achieve information-theoretically secure key establishment. Conventional QKD contains public classical post-processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zixuan Hu , Zhenyu Li

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

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

We calculate the key sharing rate of Lu et al.'s Quantum Key Recycling (QKR) protocol. The key sharing rate is another version of the key rate, but it can be calculated for both the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols and the QKR…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Yu-Chin Lu , Chia-Wei Tsai , Tzonelih Hwang

We propose a scheme for the transfer of quantum information among distant qutrits. We apply this scheme to the distribution of entanglement among distant nodes and to the generation of multipartite antisymmetric states. We also discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Delgado , C. Saavedra , J. C. Retamal

Secure quantum conferencing refers to a protocol where a number of trusted users generate exactly the same secret key to confidentially broadcast private messages. By a modification of the techniques first introduced in [Pirandola,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Stefano Pirandola

Secret sharing allows three or more parties to share secret information which can only be decrypted through collaboration. It complements quantum key distribution as a valuable resource for securely distributing information. Here we take…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Michael de Oliveira , Isaac Nape , Jonathan Pinnell , Najmeh TabeBordbar , Andrew Forbes

The combination of quantum secret sharing (QSS) and continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) has demonstrated clear advantages and has undergone significant development in recent years. However, research on the practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Fangli Yang , Liang Chang , Minghua Pan

A semi-quantum key distribution (SQKD) protocol allows two users, one of whom is restricted in their quantum capabilities, to establish a shared secret key, secure against an all-powerful adversary. In this paper, we design a new SQKD…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Hasan Iqbal , Walter O. Krawec

Device-independent (DI) quantum secret sharing (QSS) can relax the security assumptions about the devices' internal workings and provide QSS the highest level of security in theory. The original DI QSS protocol proved its correctness and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Qi Zhang , Wei Zhong , Ming-Ming Du , Shu-Ting Shen , Xi-Yun Li , An-Lei Zhang , Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng

In TCSS (Threshold Changeable Secret Sharing) scheme, the threshold can be changed to deal with share leakage in the long term. But in classical TCSS, there is no guarantee that old shares are deleted even if the participated parties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Xiaogang Cheng , Ren Guo , Changli Zhou