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Semi-Quantum Mutual Identity Authentication Using Bell States

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Identity authentication is an important method to realize information protection in communication. This paper proposes a semi-quantum mutual identity authentication protocol that does not require the third party or complicated operations, only single-qubit measurement operation and XOR operation are performed. The proposed protocol can enable quantum Alice and classical Bob to achieve mutual identity authentication at the same time. The security analysis shows that the proposed protocol can resist the impersonation attack, intercept-measure-resend attack, entangle-measure attack and Trojan horse attack. The comparison demonstrates that our protocol outperforms than other existing protocols in terms of efficiency and performance.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Project in 2020 under Grant No.20040501500.

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  1. College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    ShuQi Jiang, Ri-Gui Zhou & WenWen Hu

  2. Research Center of Intelligent Information Processing and Quantum Intelligent Computing, Shanghai, 201306, China

    ShuQi Jiang, Ri-Gui Zhou & WenWen Hu

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ShuQi Jiang and Ri-Gui Zhou conceived the theory and designed the protocol. ShuQi Jiang wrote the paper and contributed security analysis.

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Jiang, S., Zhou, RG. & Hu, W. Semi-Quantum Mutual Identity Authentication Using Bell States. Int J Theor Phys 60, 3353–3362 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-021-04911-z

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