Abstract
As a promising branch of quantum information hiding, Quantum steganography aims to transmit secret messages covertly in public quantum channels. But due to environment noise and decoherence, quantum states easily decay and change. Therefore, it is very meaningful to make a quantum information hiding protocol apply to quantum noisy channels. In this paper, we make the further research on a quantum steganography protocol for quantum noisy channels. The paper proved that the protocol can apply to transmit secret message covertly in quantum noisy channels, and explicity showed quantum steganography protocol. In the protocol, without publishing the cover data, legal receivers can extract the secret message with a certain probability, which make the protocol have a good secrecy. Moreover, our protocol owns the independent security, and can be used in general quantum communications. The communication, which happen in our protocol, do not need entangled states, so our protocol can be used without the limitation of entanglement resource. More importantly, the protocol apply to quantum noisy channels, and can be used widely in the future quantum communication.
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We would like to thank editors and reviewers very much for careful work and helpful discussion. The work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61272514, 61170272, 61121061, 61411146001), NCET (Grant No. NCET-13-0681), the National Development Foundation for Cryptological Research (Grant No. MMJJ201401012) and the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (Grant No. 131067). and the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. ZR2013FM025).
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Wei, ZH., Chen, XB., Niu, XX. et al. The Quantum Steganography Protocol via Quantum Noisy Channels. Int J Theor Phys 54, 2505–2515 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-014-2478-x
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