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Three-Party Quantum Key Agreement with Two-Photon Entanglement

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A three-party quantum key agreement protocol with two-qubit entangled states is proposed. In this paper, the three parties are entirely peer entities and each party has a equal contribution to the establishment of the shared secret key. Moreover, any subset of the three participants except the universal set can not determine the shared key alone. Finally, the security analysis shows that the present protocol can resist against both the outsider attack and the insider attack.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 61072140, the 111 Project under grant No. B08038, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under grant No. 20100203110003, and the Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program under Grant No. J13LN60.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Xun-Ru Yin & Wen-Ping Ma

  2. School of Mathematics, Taishan University, Tai’an, 271021, China

    Xun-Ru Yin

  3. School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Wei-Yan Liu

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Yin, XR., Ma, WP. & Liu, WY. Three-Party Quantum Key Agreement with Two-Photon Entanglement. Int J Theor Phys 52, 3915–3921 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-013-1702-4

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