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A Non-Entanglement Quantum Single Sign-On Protocol

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Single Sign-On (SSO) is an important cryptography mechanism in distributed systems. Quantum cryptography has gained great successes and makes great influence on traditional cryptography. In this paper, A SSO protocol under almost pure quantum cryptography without entanglement is designed. Through security analysis, we show that this protocol has good security properties.

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This research was partly supported by Beijing Municipal Education Commission Projects grants JC007011201004, Beijing Municipal Education Colleges and Universities to Deepen Talents Scheme, and CSC Projects in China.

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    Guiping Dai

  2. College of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, People’s Republic of China

    Yong Wang

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Dai, G., Wang, Y. A Non-Entanglement Quantum Single Sign-On Protocol. Int J Theor Phys 53, 2587–2592 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-014-2057-1

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