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Cryptanalysis and improvement of a quantum private set intersection protocol

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A recent Quantum Private Set Intersection (QPSI) scheme is crypt-analyzed. The original claimed communication overhead is shown to be not accurate. And the original security definition is passive and not fair. To ensure fairness, a passive third party is introduced. It is also shown that unconditional fairness of QPSI protocol is impossible. Since otherwise, it would violate a well-known impossible quantum cryptography result.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and valuable suggestions. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61370007), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2016J01336), and the Scientific Research Funds of Huaqiao University (16BS309).

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    Xiaogang Cheng & Yonghong Chen

  2. College of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China

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Cheng, X., Guo, R. & Chen, Y. Cryptanalysis and improvement of a quantum private set intersection protocol. Quantum Inf Process 16, 37 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-016-1502-x

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