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Semi-quantum communication: protocols for key agreement, controlled secure direct communication and dialogue

Authors: Chitra Shukla, Kishore Thapliyal, Anirban Pathak

Published in: Quantum Information Processing | Issue 12/2017

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Semi-quantum protocols that allow some of the users to remain classical are proposed for a large class of problems associated with secure communication and secure multiparty computation. Specifically, first-time semi-quantum protocols are proposed for key agreement, controlled deterministic secure communication and dialogue, and it is shown that the semi-quantum protocols for controlled deterministic secure communication and dialogue can be reduced to semi-quantum protocols for e-commerce and private comparison (socialist millionaire problem), respectively. Complementing with the earlier proposed semi-quantum schemes for key distribution, secret sharing and deterministic secure communication, set of schemes proposed here and subsequent discussions have established that almost every secure communication and computation tasks that can be performed using fully quantum protocols can also be performed in semi-quantum manner. Some of the proposed schemes are completely orthogonal-state-based, and thus, fundamentally different from the existing semi-quantum schemes that are conjugate coding-based. Security, efficiency and applicability of the proposed schemes have been discussed with appropriate importance.

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Title: Semi-quantum communication: protocols for key agreement, controlled secure direct communication and dialogue
Authors: Chitra Shukla
Kishore Thapliyal
Anirban Pathak
Publication date: 01-12-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Quantum Information Processing / Issue 12/2017
Print ISSN: 1570-0755
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1332
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-017-1736-2

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