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Security analysis of quantum multi-signature protocol based on teleportation

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The security of the recent quantum multi-signature protocol based on teleportation is analyzed. We show that there are some security vulnerabilities in the protocol. The detailed attack strategies are described from the aspect of participant attack. We also point out that the protocol is not secure against external attack. Finally, we give some possible countermeasures to improve the protocol.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61272057, 61202434, 61170270, 61100203, 61003286, 61121061, 11071056, 11101229), NCET (Grant No. NCET-10-0260), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 4112040, 4122054), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2012RC0612, 2011YB01), Science Foundation of Hebei Education Department(Grant No. 2010146).

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    Huijuan Zuo, Kejia Zhang & Tingting Song

  2. Mathematics and Information Science College, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China

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Zuo, H., Zhang, K. & Song, T. Security analysis of quantum multi-signature protocol based on teleportation. Quantum Inf Process 12, 2343–2353 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-013-0524-x

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