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Multi-Party Quantum Key Agreement by an Entangled Six-Qubit State

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Since the first quantum key agreement protocol based on Bell state was presented by Zhou et al., much attention has focused on it, which is based on entangled states and product states. In this paper, we propose a multi-party quantum key agreement protocol, in which the genuinely maximally entangled six-qubit states are used. The presented protocol allows participants to share a secret key and preserves the following advantages. First, the outcome of the protocol is influenced by all parties; Second, the presented protocol is fairness, i.e., no one can determine the shared key alone; Third, outside eavesdroppers cannot gain the generated key without introducing any error. The security analysis shows that our protocol can resist both outside attacks and inside attacks.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank anonymous referees for very useful comments. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61272013, No. 61402293 and No.61171072), the Key Program for Technology and Innovation of College in Guangdong Province (No. CXZD1143), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. S2013040011789), Shenzhen Technology Plan (No. JCYJ20150324141711665, No. JCYJ20150324141711694, No. JCYJ20150324141711562 and No. JCYJ20130401095947219), Natural Science Foundation of SZU(No. 201435), Innovative Research Team of Shenzhen University, and Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2015M572360).

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  1. ATR Key Laboratory of National Defense Technology, Shenzhen University, ShenZhen, Guangdong, 518060, People’s Republic of China

    Zhiwei Sun, Jianping Yu & Yong Zhang

  2. College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, People’s Republic of China

    Zhiwei Sun, Ping Wang & Jianping Yu

  3. School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Cai Zhang & Dongyang Long

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Sun, Z., Zhang, C., Wang, P. et al. Multi-Party Quantum Key Agreement by an Entangled Six-Qubit State. Int J Theor Phys 55, 1920–1929 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-015-2831-8

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