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Information Leakage Problem in Efficient Bidirectional Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Single Photons in Both Polarization and Spatial-Mode Degrees of Freedom

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The information leakage problem in the efficient bidirectional quantum secure direct communication protocol with single photons in both polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedom is pointed out. Next, a way to revise this protocol to a truly secure one is given. We hope people pay more attention to the information leakage problem in order to design truly secure quantum communication protocols.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61502101 and 61170321), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. BK20140651), and Funded by PAPD and CICAEET.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Zhi-Hao Liu & Han-Wu Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Zhi-Hao Liu & Han-Wu Chen

  3. Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Zhi-Hao Liu

  4. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Wen-Jie Liu

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Liu, ZH., Chen, HW. & Liu, WJ. Information Leakage Problem in Efficient Bidirectional Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Single Photons in Both Polarization and Spatial-Mode Degrees of Freedom. Int J Theor Phys 55, 4681–4686 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3089-5

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