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Participant attack on the deterministic measurement-device-independent quantum secret sharing protocol

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In a recent article [Gao et al., Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. 63, 120311 (2020)], a two-receiver measurement-device-independent quantum secret sharing (MDI-QSS) protocol was presented. It was proven to be secure against eavesdropping and generalized to the multireceiver case. However, the participant attack is a fatal threat to QSS protocols. Here, we highlight that a dishonest participant can obtain a sender’s secret message alone without introducing any detectable error, evidencing the vulnerability of the MDI-QSS protocol to the participant attack.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yu-Guang Yang, Yue-Chao Wang, Yong-Li Yang, Yi-Hua Zhou & Wei-Min Shi

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Trusted Computing, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

  3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security, Guilin, 541004, China

    Yu-Guang Yang

  4. Information Security Center, State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Xiu-Bo Chen

  5. College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China

    Dan Li

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62071015), the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (Grant No. Z191100007119004), and the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security (Grant No. GCIS201810).

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Yang, YG., Wang, YC., Yang, YL. et al. Participant attack on the deterministic measurement-device-independent quantum secret sharing protocol. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 64, 260321 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1692-5

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