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Cryptanalysis and Improvement of Semi-Quantum Dialogue with Bell Entangled States

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Recently, Pan proposed a semi-quantum dialogue scheme with Bell entangled states Pan (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 59, 1364-1371, 2020). Here we re-examin the security of it and discover a security vulnerability in the original scheme. Eavesdropper Eve may utilize double controlled-not operation attack to obtain Bob’s secret without being detected. Finally, we give an improvement of the semi-quantum dialogue protocol and prove its security. We sincerely hope the researchers pay enough attention to double controlled-not operation attack hidden in semi-quantum cryptography protocols and design truly secure semi-quantum protocols.

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Shi, GF. Cryptanalysis and Improvement of Semi-Quantum Dialogue with Bell Entangled States. Int J Theor Phys 62, 224 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-023-05482-x

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