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An Improved Protocol for Controlled Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication Using Five-Qubit Entangled State

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In early 2009, Xiu et al. (Opt. Commun. 282(2) 333–337 2009) presented a controlled deterministic secure quantum communication (CDSQC) protocol via a newly constructed five-qubit entangled quantum state. Later, Qin et al. (Opt. Commun. 282(13), 2656–2658 2009) pointed out two security loopholes in Xiu et al.’s protocol: (1) A correlation-elicitation (CE) attack can reveal the entire secret message; (2) A leakage of partial information for the receiver is noticed. Then, Xiu et al. (Opt. Commun. 283(2), 344–347 2010) presented a revised CDSQC protocol to remedy the CE attack problem. However, the information leakage problem still remains open. This work proposes a new CDSQC protocol using the same five-qubit entangled state which can work without the above mentioned security problems. Moreover, the Trojan Horse attacks can be automatically avoided without using detecting devices in the new CDSQC.

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The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. This research is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan, under the Contract No. MOST 105-2221-E-006-162-MY2.

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    Shih-Hung Kao & Tzonelih Hwang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Jason Lin

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Chia-Wei Tsai

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Kao, SH., Lin, J., Tsai, CW. et al. An Improved Protocol for Controlled Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication Using Five-Qubit Entangled State. Int J Theor Phys 57, 1894–1902 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3715-5

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