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Eavesdropping on the orderly-encrypting multiparty quantum secret sharing protocols

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Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

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We discuss the security of the kind of multiparty quantum secret sharing protocols encrypting in series. It is secure against the eavesdroppers outside. However it is weak to withstand the attack of insider with a fake signal and cheating. An idiographic attack strategy is given based on the protocol. Furthermore, we conclude the key leak of the protocols and present a possible way to prevent the dishonest agents from stealing the secret.

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  1. School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 100876, Beijing, China

    Qin Sujuan & Wen Qiaoyan

  2. National Laboratory for Modern Communications, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

    Zhu Fuchen

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Foundation item: Supported by the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90604023), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60373059), the National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20040013007), the National Laboratory for Modern Communications Science Foundation of China (9140C1101010601) and the Graduate Students Innovation Foundation and the Integrated Service Networks Open Foundation

Biography: QIN Sujuan (1979-), female, Ph.D. candidate, research direction: quantum eryptography.

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Sujuan, Q., Qiaoyan, W. & Fuchen, Z. Eavesdropping on the orderly-encrypting multiparty quantum secret sharing protocols. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 11, 1593–1596 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02831828

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