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Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Authentication Using Two Nonorthogonal States

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A quantum secure direct communication protocol with authentication using only two nonorthogonal states is presented. In the protocol, a one-way hash function is utilized for two-way authentication and two one-particle unitary operations are used for encoding. Moreover, it has been shown that this protocol is secure against some common attacks.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China

    Chao-Hua Yu, Gong-De Guo & Song Lin

  2. Key Lab of Network Security and Cryptography, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China

    Chao-Hua Yu, Gong-De Guo & Song Lin

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61202451), Fujian Province Science and Technology Cooperation Projects (Grant No. 2010H6007), Fujian Province Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2010J05128), Foundation of Fujian Education Bureau (Grant No. JA11054), Program for Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology in Fujian Province University, and a Key Project of Fujian Provincial Universities-Information Technology Research Based on Mathematics.

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Yu, CH., Guo, GD. & Lin, S. Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Authentication Using Two Nonorthogonal States. Int J Theor Phys 52, 1937–1945 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-012-1336-y

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