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Quantum Information Processing
Published in: Quantum Information Processing 7/2017

01-07-2017

Multi-party quantum key agreement protocol secure against collusion attacks

Authors: Ping Wang, Zhiwei Sun, Xiaoqiang Sun

Published in: Quantum Information Processing | Issue 7/2017

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Abstract

The fairness of a secure multi-party quantum key agreement (MQKA) protocol requires that all involved parties are entirely peer entities and can equally influence the outcome of the protocol to establish a shared key wherein no one can decide the shared key alone. However, it is found that parts of the existing MQKA protocols are sensitive to collusion attacks, i.e., some of the dishonest participants can collaborate to predetermine the final key without being detected. In this paper, a multi-party QKA protocol resisting collusion attacks is proposed. Different from previous QKA protocol resisting \(N-1\) coconspirators or resisting 1 coconspirators, we investigate the general circle-type MQKA protocol which can be secure against t dishonest participants’ cooperation. Here, \(t < N\). We hope the results of the presented paper will be helpful for further research on fair MQKA protocols.
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Footnotes
1
For the single state, it can be considered as the entangled states where parts of them \(R_{i}\) have already been measured.
 
2
For the single state, it can be considered as the entangled states where parts of them have already been measured.
 
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Metadata
Title
Multi-party quantum key agreement protocol secure against collusion attacks
Authors
Ping Wang
Zhiwei Sun
Xiaoqiang Sun
Publication date
01-07-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Quantum Information Processing / Issue 7/2017
Print ISSN: 1570-0755
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1332
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-017-1621-z

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