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Cryptanalysis and improvement of dynamic quantum secret sharing protocol based on two-particle transform of Bell states

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Recently, Du and Bao proposed a quantum secret sharing protocol based on two-particle transform of Bell states. We study the security of the proposed protocol and find that it is not secure, that is, the two dishonest agents, Bob and Zach, can collude to obtain Alice’s secret messages without the help of the other agents. Finally, we give a possible improvement of the proposed protocol.

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The author Gao thanks his parents for their encouragements. This work is supported by the 2014-year Program for Excellent Youth Talents in University of Anhui Province, the Talent Scientific Research Fundation of Tongling University under grant No. 2015tlxyrc01 and the top-notch talents cultivation project of Anhui Higher Education under grant No.gxyq2017081.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Tongling University, Tongling, 244000, China

    Gan Gao

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Tongling University, Tongling, 244000, China

    Chang-Cheng Wei

  3. School of Physics and Material Science, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China

    Dong Wang

  4. Engineering Technology Research Center of Optoelectronic Technology Appliance, Tongling University, Tongling, 244000, China

    Gan Gao

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Gao, G., Wei, CC. & Wang, D. Cryptanalysis and improvement of dynamic quantum secret sharing protocol based on two-particle transform of Bell states. Quantum Inf Process 18, 186 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-019-2301-y

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