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Title: Semiquantum secret sharing using entangled states

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. College of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105 (China)
  2. Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
  3. Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006 (China)

Secret sharing is a procedure for sharing a secret among a number of participants such that only the qualified subsets of participants have the ability to reconstruct the secret. Even in the presence of eavesdropping, secret sharing can be achieved when all the members are quantum. So what happens if not all the members are quantum? In this paper, we propose two semiquantum secret sharing protocols by using maximally entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states in which quantum Alice shares a secret with two classical parties, Bob and Charlie, in a way that both parties are sufficient to obtain the secret, but one of them cannot. The presented protocols are also shown to be secure against eavesdropping.

OSTI ID:
21448450
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.022303; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English