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Quantum Authencryption with Two-Photon Entangled States for Off-Line Communicants

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In this paper, a quantum authencryption protocol is proposed by using the two-photon entangled states as the quantum resource. Two communicants Alice and Bob share two private keys in advance, which determine the generation of two-photon entangled states. The sender Alice sends the two-photon entangled state sequence encoded with her classical bits to the receiver Bob in the manner of one-step quantum transmission. Upon receiving the encoded quantum state sequence, Bob decodes out Alice’s classical bits with the two-photon joint measurements and authenticates the integrity of Alice’s secret with the help of one-way hash function. The proposed protocol only uses the one-step quantum transmission and needs neither a public discussion nor a trusted third party. As a result, the proposed protocol can be adapted to the case where the receiver is off-line, such as the quantum E-mail systems. Moreover, the proposed protocol provides the message authentication to one bit level with the help of one-way hash function and has an information-theoretical efficiency equal to 100 %.

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Funding by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61402407, 11375152) is gratefully acknowledged.

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Introduction: Ye Tian-Yu, is male and born in 1982. He received the Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2010, and now is a vice professor and a master advisor in Zhejiang Gongshang University. His research interest concentrates on quantum cryptography.

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Ye, TY. Quantum Authencryption with Two-Photon Entangled States for Off-Line Communicants. Int J Theor Phys 55, 867–874 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-015-2729-5

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