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Analysis and Improvement of Large Payload Bidirectional Quantum Secure Direct Communication Without Information Leakage

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As we know, the information leakage problem should be avoided in a secure quantum communication protocol. Unfortunately, it is found that this problem does exist in the large payload bidirectional quantum secure direct communication (BQSDC) protocol (Ye Int. J. Quantum. Inf. 11(5), 1350051 2013) which is based on entanglement swapping between any two Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. To be specific, one half of the information interchanged in this protocol is leaked out unconsciously without any active attack from an eavesdropper. Afterward, this BQSDC protocol is revised to the one without information leakage. It is shown that the improved BQSDC protocol is secure against the general individual attack and has some obvious features compared with the original one.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61502101 and 61170321), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant Nos. BK20140651 and BK20140823), and funded by China Scholarship Council, PAPD and CICAEET.

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  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 Software and Information, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

    Zhi-Hao Liu

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Liu, ZH., Chen, HW. Analysis and Improvement of Large Payload Bidirectional Quantum Secure Direct Communication Without Information Leakage. Int J Theor Phys 57, 311–321 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3563-8

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