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A One-Round Quantum Mutual Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol with Semi-Honest Server Using Three-Particle Entangled States

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In this paper, we propose a mutual authenticated quantum key agreement scheme based on three-particle entangled states, which can achieve both completely secure and more efficient. In our scheme, the pre-shared keys are classical bit strings between the semi-honest server (SHS) and the client (Alice or Bob), so they are kept and use to authenticate each other easily. More important, by the SHS’s helping with three-particle entangled states, SHS and Alice/Bob can authenticate each other, and at the same time anyone else cannot get the session key between Alice and Bob even for SHS. The proposed scheme has the properties of completeness, information theoretic security, non-repudiation and unforgeability. Its information-theoretic security is ensured by quantum indistinguishability mechanics. Compared with the related works, our proposed scheme can increase efficiency factors η1 and η2 to 50% and 80% respectively in one communication round.

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This work was supported by the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2019-MS-286), and Shenyang Science & Technology Innovation Talents Program for Young and Middle-aged Scientists (Grant No. LJC202007).

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Zhu, H., Liu, T. & Wang, C. A One-Round Quantum Mutual Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol with Semi-Honest Server Using Three-Particle Entangled States. Int J Theor Phys 60, 929–943 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-021-04716-0

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