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Cryptanalysis and Improvement of the Semi-quantum Secret Sharing Protocol

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Recently, Xie et al. Int. J. Theor. Phys. 54, 3819–3824, (2015) proposed a Semi-quantum secret sharing protocol (SQSS). Yin et al. Int. J. Theor. Phys. 55: 4027–4035, (2016) pointed out that this protocol suffers from the intercept-resend attack. Yin et al. also proposed an improved protocol. However, we find out that Yin et al.’s paper has some problems, we analyze Yin et al.’s paper, then proposed the improved semi-quantum secret sharing protocol. Our protocol is more secure and efficient, most importantly, our protocol satisfies the condition of semi-quantum.

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Acknowledgments

This work is founded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61572086 and Nos. 61402058, Sichuan innovation team of quantum security communication under Grant Nos. sc2016009 and the Application Foundation Project of Sichuan Province of China (2017JY0168). In addition, the authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers who have helped to improve the paper.

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    Xiang Gao, Shibin Zhang & Yan Chang

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Gao, X., Zhang, S. & Chang, Y. Cryptanalysis and Improvement of the Semi-quantum Secret Sharing Protocol. Int J Theor Phys 56, 2512–2520 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3404-9

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